Monthly Archives: February 2007

Two more reasons Ruby beats Perl: Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris

I was thinking of all the various Norrisisms on the web (“Chuck Noriss’s tears cure cancer. If only he would ever cry…” and such), and realized that Chuck Norris would prefer ruby to perl. Two of my own very clever*** … Continue reading

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Ebay finally gives in!

Attention, nerds! If you are horribly wronged, do not simply accept your mistreatment. Sure, in high school we learned that survival depended upon rolling up into a ball and feigning death to protect ourselves from the jocks, but those days … Continue reading

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Web security and Mobster World: a tale of woe

I belong to a forum for web game developers and I recently posted about how to keep one’s game from being a target of the most common security problems. The information seems, to me, to be so obvious, but apparently … Continue reading

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Boycott Ebay!

I use Magic the Gathering Online as a source of supplemental income. I am not “poor”, but with a wife, two kids, and a lot of medical bills for one child, my income is stretched extremely thin. Every month we … Continue reading

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PCI Evils

“PCI compliance”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS is a good idea. In theory. At my job we’re adopting all these standards to make all our users’ experiences better, which is really a great thing. But just like every other “good idea in theory”, this one … Continue reading

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