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Thanks to the efforts of over a thousand people, my friend Tom Storm placed third in the Name Your Dream Assignment contest. He won a new Lenovo laptop with a Wacom tablet built in and a second monitor that slides out from behind the main LCD panel. It is a bit bulky for a laptop, but I know he was in the market for a new one anyway. Included in the winnings is some Microsoft digital asset management software which he is really excited about. Thanks to the prodding of many, he now offers prints of all of his artwork from his website. www.tomstorm.net

Uncategorized photography

CodeIgniter has some handy security features that sometimes get in the way. One such feature is URI scrubbing for disallowed characters. There are probably more secure ways to tell a script what email address to use than to pass it directly via URI. I’m using this for a simple intranet application to manage email recipients for a UPS & FedEx tracking emailer. So it is not important to cloak the email address being passed. Make sure this method is right for your project before you use it. It can expose email addresses to being indexed by spam bots or intercepted by hackers. Read more…

Tutorials CodeIgniter, configuration, PHP, security

I just started reading Dan Brown’s, “Digital Fortress” which is an excellent read so far. Early on in the novel, we are introduced to some very basic cryptography. Nothing like the FBI Cryptography Challenge, mind you. This is much simpler. So, what is the cypher? It’s simple. Just shift each letter of the “clear text” message by minus one. So, ‘a’ becomes ‘z’, ‘b’ becomes ‘a’, ‘c’ becomes ‘b’, and so on. First, we’ll need a script to encrypt the message. We’ll also need a script to decrypt the message just for good measure. So I give you, shift.php and unshift.php. Read more…

Code, Play Code, cryptography, PHP

I’m working on the design for my new personal business card. Please, let me know what you think. I want to know your ideas.

Business Card - White on Black with PHP Code

Work business, design, marketing

Is Twitter Tools not working for you? Maybe you downloaded Twitter Tools through the Wordpress UI? Perhaps the ‘activation’ didn’t work out properly and the local cache database table wasn’t created. At this point, the installation is broken. Don’t worry, it isn’t that hard to fix. All we have to do is set up the ak_twitter table in the database. Keep reading for the how-to. Read more…

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