With more and more web sites and businesses embracing Twitter, it’s important to make it as easy as possible users to share content on the social networking site. That’s why I just coded up a jQuery plugin called TweetLink, which allows web developers to easily add “Tweet This Page” buttons to their site.
After the TweetLink [...]
Twitter has had a lot of embarrassing security problems in the past, but the worst part is that they still haven’t learned from their mistakes. Apparently a recent redesign left the profile page vulnerable to a very simple XSS attack.
Some enterprising hacker quickly seized the opportunity to promote Twitter-clone StalkDaily by infecting the profiles of [...]
I came across a really useful Ruby gem today: andand. In PHP web development, I usually use this idiom when retrieving an object from the database model:
$obj = $model->getObject($id);
if(null !== $obj) {
doSomething($obj);
}
Obviously this is a little cumbersome, since I have to do this every single time I get an object [...]