Monthly Archives: May 2007

Care Bears and Dr. Sbaitso… the conspiracy is revealed!

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Nerdmaster

My son is three, so I grant him a lot of leeway when it comes to his choices of video. However, I was shocked, appalled, and disturbed when my wife mentioned he was totally in love with the Care Bears: … Continue reading →

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Yet another Awesome Software Discovery!

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Nerdmaster

This time it’s a piece of javascript to compute ideal body weight in a variety of ways, the most interesting of which claims to tell you what other people like you consider their ideal body weight. Very “slick” little system, … Continue reading →

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Be careful of Rubyforge gem!

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Nerdmaster

I just discovered a weird issue. The comments under my name will explain it better than I can here, but sufficed to say, if you use Net::HTTP in ruby, do not install the RubyForge gem! Read all about “the issue”:http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=8907&group_id=1024&atid=4025 … Continue reading →

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The wonderful world of Cross-site scripting (XSS) – OR – why input filtering is bad

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Nerdmaster

I have been dealing with XSS at my so-called “real job” recently, and it has come to my attention that a lot of people in this world are under the mistaken impression that it’s better to do “input filtering” than … Continue reading →

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