Hi, I'm Damian...

Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

02 April 2009 ~ Comments Off

Transitioning to Safari 4

I’ve tried previous versions of Safari only a handful of times, as I have been content with Firefox for at least 5 years. During this time period I’ve spanned across multiple OS’s, and the first thing I always did when transitioning to a new platform was to hit-up Mozilla for the newest release if Firefox. [...]

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30 March 2009 ~ Comments Off

Mac 20Q Podcast

A few weeks ago I was a guest on the Mac 20 Questions Podcast where David Allen asks how my macbook pro fits in with my day to day life.
You can check out what I have to say here or download the file directly.
If you can’t be bothered to listen to the podcast, or can’t [...]

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17 February 2009 ~ Comments Off

Escaping HTML with xss_terminate

Contrast to what Sarat says, I am security conscious, as this post will demonstrate.
Even though the odds were against me as hardly no-one reads this site, for a long while now, I was paranoid that this space would be subject to some nasty hackage in the form of cross-site scripting(XSS). Rails 101 tells you to [...]

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05 February 2009 ~ Comments Off

My thoughts on Ruby, Rails and where I got started

Since I was quite late to jump on the Rails bandwagon, I thought I’d share my experiences upto this point in time. “They say” learning Ruby first really lightens the load when learning Rails, consequently that’s what I set out to do in the late stages of 2008. This however, was not my first encounter [...]

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29 January 2009 ~ Comments Off

Google Quick Search Box

Like a lot people who own a mac, when this announcement came out, I feverishly downloaded the Google Quick Search Box.

Being a regular Quicksilver user for quite some time now, I was eager to see what the big G-Man could bring to the table. My initial impressions can be summed up in one word…SLOW!
As mentioned [...]

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