I created a simple Chrome extension today to make things a little easier when browsing Netflix. I always find myself having to go to IMDB.com to go and check out a movie’s rating when I am looking for something to watch on Netflix. With this extension I bring that rating right into Netflix, meaning one less click for me. ...
Martin Fowler’s presention on building healthy, social environments where software development can thrive is interesting. ...
Often I work with remotely distributed teams where some (or all) of the team members are remote and attend meetings virtually. The other day, during a planning games session, a few of the team members were remote and so, in order to facilitate the planning poker sessions, we looked for a web site that would provide the option for the team to all vote within a virtual room. ...
I added a bootstrap panel to a webpage with collapsing sections. The requirement was for each panel to remain open until it was specifically closed. This worked fine, however, I noticed that on closing the panel there would appear to be a jump effect which did not look nice at all. ...
Step 1: Remove all history rm -rf .git Step 2: Reconstruct the Git repository git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit" Step 3: push to GitHub. git remote add origin <github-uri> git push -u --force origin master
Back in August 2013, at the Blackhat conference, security researchers Angelo Prado, Neal Harris and Yoel Gluck announced BREACH. ...
It is worth noting that SSL is only one piece of your web security. It offers a great way to protect your data as it flows between the client and the server as well as providing a check to ensure the server is who you think it is but it is only a piece of the security puzzle. Often people will think just by having SSL enabled their site is now secure but this is just not the case. ...
I have setup some test controllers and was struggling to hit them remotely from my local machine. The main issue was because my local machine was in one domain and the controllers were in another domain. After lots of fruitless googling I came eventually came across this simple solution. ...
I have finally finished some updates on my first foray into Windows 8 apps. Last summer I uploaded, to the Windows Store, version 1 of my Hacker News App which, using the bigrss feed from Hacker News, displayed the top stories from the popular tech news aggregator. It was pretty basic - it showed comments for each story and allowed the viewer to view the original story. For release 2 I added a couple of new features that I think will make it more useful as well as made a couple of bug fixes and UX improvements. ...
So I recently finished reading JavaScript Allonge. This is a great book, with recipes for JavaScript that are explained simply yet effectively. It provides recipes for functions that are clean and straightforward to follow. You can even get a JavaScript library which contains all the functions outlined in the book at allong.es. ...