With the rise of Ajax lots of people are becoming quite excited about the JavaScript programming language. As skillful programmers who are new to JavaScript move beyond cutting-and-pasting snippets of code and actually begin learning something about the language, there are some common reactions that tend to emerge. We see these consistently in interactions with [...]

Over at the O’Reilly Ruby blog, Derek Sivers has an intestesting post up, describing what he learned from his decision to revert to PHP for the complete rewrite of his cdbaby.com site, after spending two years trying to do it in Rails.
In a nutshell, those two years of Rails development (with very expert help) got [...]

If you spend a little time looking into the online literature for the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploit, you might get the impression that Web 2.0 has opened up an appalling can of security worms. In some ways this is true, but in other respects what we are seeing [...]

“Last night I was playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City which really does hold up to the test of time, but then I realized I love it so much because it must be written in C++. I mean all the best games are written in C or C++, only losers don’t use that language. [...]