Protecting Against XSS In RAILS – JavaScript Contexts
IRCMAXELL Recently my team was working to implement Brakeman in our CI processes to automatically scan our codebase for security…
Disclosure: WordPress WPDB SQL Injection – Technical
A2Hosting – WordPress Hosting IRCMAXELL Today, a significant SQL-Injection vulnerability was fixed in WordPress 4.8.3. Before reading further, if you…
Disclosure: WordPress WPDB SQL Injection – Background
IRCMAXELL Today, a significant SQL-Injection vulnerability was fixed in WordPress 4.8.3. Before reading further, if you haven’t updated yet stop…
Ponderings on Odoriferous Syntactical Constructifications
IRCMAXELL (AKA: "Thoughts on code smells" and how "high brow" they have become) We have a habit of talking about…
Building an 8-bit Computer
I have been building a computer. Not assembling components, but actually designing and wiring it from scratch onto prototyping breadboards.…
All About Middleware
Last week, a proposal to standardize middleware for PSR-7 was introduced to the PHP-FIG. The general concept of middleware is…
Simple, Easy, Risk and Change
I've been thinking a lot about change lately. Things finally resonated to me after listening to Uncle Bob Martin on…
Tries and Lexers
Lately I have been playing around with a few experimental projects. The current one started when I tried to make…
Prefix Trees and Parsers
In my last post, Tries and Lexers, I talked about an experiment I was doing related to parsing of JavaScript…