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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
Hmm tesco sell semi invisible diesel too. Needle didn't move after refuel, stopped to put more in and then it caught up. Stupid car. # Random diesel prices : independent 111.9p/l, sainsburys 113.9p/l, tesco 115.9p/l. Tescos were the only one open at 7am on Sunday. :-/ # Hmm weather advisory for heavy snow on my…
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Starbucks – Free wifi should not cost £5
Today, I went to London to visit a prospect customer – who we’ve done work for before – oddly the people I spoke to had no knowledge of the work we did (they paid for it all about 18-24 months ago… but nevermind), and it doesn’t appear to have been deployed either (“We heard someone…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
Wondering where to run to tomorrow. # Rowan now has a facebook account to go with his Twitter @rowangoodwin and blog … (rowangoodwin.co.uk, Facebook.com/rowan.Goodwin) # Haha msnbot it appears you are enjoying indexing a customers server a bit much. Have you heard of being 'nice' ? # Today I did a total of 132 pushups…
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Can you write a web app, like Ebay, for me?
Today I had a phone call which went along the lines of …. Prospect: Do you develop web applications? Me: Yes… <cue sales pitch> Prospect: I’ve got a great idea, it’s like eBay…. I need a programmer…. Me: <thinking: oh not another….> Prospect: I think it’s about 2 developer months worth of work…. Me: Well,…
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Rate limiting http traffic (mod_evasive and iptables)
A customer has a relatively busy web site, which contains lots of juicy information (business names, addresses, email address, phone numbers etc etc). Currently there is nothing in place to stop people spidering it – unless someone explicitly looks at the log files and does something. Blocking annoying people who spider the site is easy…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
RT @glynmoody Facebook rewrites PHP runtime – http://bit.ly/ahwWiq to be released as open source #facebook #php # Poop. Spoke too soon. Snow tap being turned off. F'ing weather god. Curse you. # Decent snow. 4/10 perhaps. B61 #uksnow … Just keep up for an hour or two and perhaps i can sledge/snow fight. # Looks…
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Verified by Visa …. what rubbish
On Wednesday I was trying to buy train tickets for an upcoming trip to London. So, I book the tickets, and get to point of being asked for my card details … tap tap tap … kapow … Up comes the Verified by Visa payment screen (in a stupid iframe [how do I know this…
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The PHP Security Journey begins…
Here’s the slides from the PHPWM talk I gave last week PHPWM Presentation – The Security Journey Begins ; thanks to DeanC on #phpwm for reminding me to upload them 🙂 The presentation focusses on security issues in web applications – specifically, PHP – although obviously other web facing languages face the same problems. It’s a…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24
Bubble blowing fail day. Do mixtures have a BBE date? Rowan seems happy with one bubble in 10 goes. # 820 days uptime is sufficient; time for a long overdue reboot I think. #linux # There's still snow outside tesco. Strange redditch. # Today I did a total of 77 situps thanks to the 200…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17
Fantastic Mr Fox looks pretty good; Rowan seems to approve too 🙂 # 13.26 miles, 1hour and 45 mins or thereabouts. Icy roads. # Lets try http://favoriterun.com/299771 # Hotel chocolate is very nice; I lack self control and gorge myself on a packet at a time … And subsequently feel yucky. no common sense. #…