Category: Computer Science
codahale.com – A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don’t use MessageDigest.isEquals)
Nice intro to timing attacks along the way.
GitHub – slang
Neat set of tools for string manipulation.
Fabien Potencier – The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?
Huge speed hits using the ternary operator on larger variables.
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).
Identity at Mozilla – How BrowserID differs from OpenID
Some really impressive work from the team at Mozilla, defiantly simpler to get started and using than OpenID and eliminates the which OpenID provider did I use for this site.
Hacker News – Self Extracting PNG
Wow that is some impressive work.
Mark Story – My thoughts on the built-in php server
I think he reached into my brain and said exactly what I was thinking.
CSS-Tricks – IE 8 Thinks All Table Cells Have a Colspan
So thanks for keeping things interesting IE.
Utoxin’s Random Insanity – CakePHP + Symlinks = Pain
Debugging oh what a joy it is.
Pastebin.com – Ok, I came up with an example. Programming is like doing a massive sudoku.
Just a little to close to home.