Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Greg Allard in Programming | Comments
Maybe I’m not the first to think of this, but it just came to me. Instead of using a single string to season a whole site or saving each new salt with the salted hash, try using this method for simplicity. Take the string and concatenate itself after it. This way, both the value being [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Greg Allard in Programming | Comments
For some time now, I’ve been using a
Magic the Gathering card database for a testing bed for various things. Earlier today
I learned about a service that will provide commenting functionality for your website.
HaloScan was easy to set up even for a non-blog type website. It only required a few lines of pasted [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Greg Allard in OpenID, Programming | Comments
After attending the recent
BarCamp, I realized how much talent the Orlando community has. Central Florida seems to be booming with web development and .com start-ups. There was one such company that did about 3.5 presentations on the first day (I missed out on the second day). The .5 part was what interested me most. [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Greg Allard in CyTE, Programming | Comments
This is an idea to help with CyTE, but I’d like to start seeing this idea applied to other web-based software as well. Having an interface to update the software easily and keep a revision history would help web-based apps become closer to desktop apps. Programs like Adobe Flash Player will check for updates periodically, [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Greg Allard in Programming | Comments
I was looking at my google analytics account and saw that the
MTG:DB site was actually getting a little bit of traffic from google. One visitor even spent 40 minutes searching through cards (and I know it wasn’t me since the source was google and not direct). I figured the site could use a few [...]