A while ago you may have noticed that I removed the need for users to complete a CAPTCHA before being able to post comments. My reasons for this were twofold:
Due to the nature of half decent CAPTCHA’s, I think they set the barrier to entry too high as contributing to a website should be as [...]
For a good while I’ve been using a particular gravatar plugin to fetch gravatars for the people who leave comments on my mighty fine blog here. Unfortunately I found it to be restricting and the documentation poor. So rather than digging about the code to see how I could manipulate it to change the default [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As you can see, I finally started my new blog!
It’s a bit bare at the moment, however I’ll gradually update it over time. That’s one of the great things about not being tied to the more mainstream blogging engines – since I built this thing from scratch in Ruby on Rails, I can customise it [...]
