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Turn your roomba into a walking google bot
When my latest son was born I got a little worried since he didn't look at all like me. I decided I needed a discrete device to spy on my wife while I was at work. I started hacking my roomba and made a GåågleBot (pronounced /google-bot/). G... |
Mar 1, 2010 |
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Running Jetty as Non Root
I'm kicking the tires of Jetty and am in the process of setting it up on a production machine and found that the latest Jetty realeas (6.1.14) has a really easy way to start jetty out running as root and later switch to a uid of your choice which enabl... |
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Single Table Polymorphic Inheritance with ActiveRecords
Implementing a single table polymorphic inheritance in rails is dead easy. Simply do class Fruit or if you a migrating... class Fruit Now, all you have to do is to create your sub-classes class Fruit Don't forget to put Apple in a separate fi... |
May 22, 2008 |
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Internet Explorer 6 & 7 document.domain bug
Disclaimer: Im not sure this a bug discovery...couldn't find anything that resembled it after a couple of minutes of googling, or a super silly security restriction. I've been coding some javascript ajax code that inserts an iframe, and into the creat... |
Oct 31, 2007 |
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DisplayTag Paging
DisplayTag is a very versatile jsp tag library. It provides a whole lot for free. Paging, sorting, even / odd highlighting, grouping, exporting to PDF, Excel, CSV, XML, just to mention a few things it can do. I use it in pretty much every project. Ho... |
Nov 7, 2006 |
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W AJAX design pattern
This is a new design pattern which was independently discovered by me and Will Glass over the phone one day while discussing a painful loading time of around 7 seconds for a web application we were working on. Describing the problem The web app front b... |
Jul 8, 2006 |
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Javascript Atbash Decrypter/Encrypter
Simply type the text you want to decrypt or encrypt in the text box below. The decrypted/encrypted text will appear as you type. function atbash(str) { var ret = ''; for (i=0;i You must have a browser that supports javascript , or javascript is... |
May 7, 2006 |
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Using AJAX with CAPTCHA - AJAX Security Part 3 of 3
This article shows one way to use AJAX along with a series of images to create a secure CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHA is a way to tell humans and computers apart and is used all over the web, especially if you're signing up for new email accounts. For more ... |
Dec 18, 2005 |
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Installing Tomcat with commons-daemon (jsvc)
Most installation that I've seen of Tomcat is made with tomcat running as root. This could potentially be a disasters security hole. Most Linux systems only allow the root to listen to port 80...which is why many users of tomcat under Linux run tomcat ... |
Dec 13, 2005 |
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Using AJAX to deter Hackers - AJAX Security Part 2 of 3
This article shows how AJAX can be used to increase the security level of regular text password logins. |
Sep 18, 2005 |
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Using AJAX for Image Passwords - AJAX Security Part 1 of 3
Although not a novel idea to use mouse patterns as a way to boost security for login screens, this small proof of concept application displays how AJAX can be used to login to a site based on a unique mouse pattern that the user previously recorded. |
Sep 18, 2005 |
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Tom Riddle's Magical Diary Comes to Life with AJAX
Described is how to summon a magical diary to life. Inspired by the book 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' and with the help of the secret incantation 'AJAX'. |
Jun 5, 2005 |