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Posts Tagged General Webdev

On Frameworks

I start to understand why there are so bloody many web application frameworks out there. I need to get a really basic website up and running fast. I have two choices: spend some time evaluating various frameworks that are actually about 70 times more complex than I need, learning how they work, and […]


Note to Self

The much-beloved last.fm expose a “top albums” feed (here) that provides amazon URLs to images. It doesn’t change enough to be worth tying directly in to my weekly “top ten” list on ala.sda.ir but it might be a useful data source, to then build a personal weekly top ten albums.
I’m thinking about this because […]


Prototype

I’ve spent the last couple of days doing a bit of work involving tarmac AJAX, and while I’m sure everyone else in my line of work discovered them yonks ago, I’d just like to take a moment to sing the praises of both script.aculo.us and especially the Prototype javascript library that it uses. These […]


API reference

The Programmable Web - a quick and dirty listing of the various sites with public APIs out there. What’d make it really handy, of course, is a corresponding list of links to code libraries for interacting with them, but it’s a start.


Email security things…

A different sort of injection attack, but one I’m noting here mostly as a reminder to myself that just because something’s not going into a database, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be careful. Email Injection Attacks.


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