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Buy Web Development Books from SitePoint’s 5-for-1 Sale and Donate to Bushfire Relief
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For those of you who don’t already know, I’ve been a blogger over at SitePoint for a few months now. Today, I’m even happier to be a participant in the SitePoint community because, for a limited time only, ( Read more... ) -
Gender and Technology at IgniteSydney (with presentation slides)
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Last night at Ignite Sydney, I presented a 5-minute talk about how technology influences sexual awareness and how sexual awareness returns the favor, influencing the technology that we build. I had an ( Read more... ) -
clickjane.css: A CSS User Style Sheet to Help Detect and Avoid Clickjacking Attacks
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Clickjacking or, more formally, user interface redressing, is a class of security vulnerabilities similar to phishing scams. The technique uses web standards to trick unsuspecting victims into performing ( Read more... ) -
Introducing KinkForAll: A no-limits gender and sexuality unconference
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As if I didn’t have enough projects going right now, while here in Sydney, Eileen and I had an idea for a social and educational event that will promote positive ideals of sexuality from and to many communities and organizations. The idea is called KinkForAll, and ( Read more... ) -
Why CSS needs delegation capabilities and not “variables”
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It’s been too long since I joined the fun, if amazingly heated, debates over the direction that Web standards are moving in. Recently, given the “free” time to do so, I decided to dive head first into what ( Read more... ) -
WP-Oomph: Add the Oomph Microformat Overlay to your WordPress blog
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I’ve just developed a completely idiotic (by which I mean brain-dead simple) plugin for WordPress that will add the Oomph Microformat Toolkit to all WordPress-generated pages. If you use a WordPress template ( Read more... ) -
Are you missing the point of using a version control tool?
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The other day I gave a brief (and overly-hyper) talk about git, the (very) dumb, (very) fast version control system. It was part of SyPy’s Git vs. Hg vs. Bzr night. Rather than be flamingly competitive, ( Read more... ) -
SECURITY FAIL: Workamajig.com encourages users to email cleartext passwords
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Creative agency management tool company Workamajig.com is a sizable operation with an international client base. Their product used to be called “Creative Manager Pro” which I can only assume they changed ( Read more... ) -
One Minute Mac Tip: Create an encrypted disk image to store confidential files
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Nary a day goes by when I don’t use my computer for some extremely personal stuff. I would consider it a Very Bad Thing if some of this information (my bank account details or private SSH keys, for instance ( Read more... ) -
Extract list of all Apple WikiServer wiki titles into CSV format
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An interesting request came in today from a coworker. She wanted to create a spreadsheet that contained all of our intranet’s wiki pages (which uses the Apple WikiServer), presumably because Apple doesn’t ( Read more... )