Security
Do you have an Extended Validation Certificate?
Are you using Firefox 3? Cool, me too. See where the favicon is for this site up there in the address bar? Did you know it’s clickable? That area now presents security information about the site you are visiting. Firefox is calling it the Site Identification Button, and it’s taking the old padlock icon to [...]
Exterminating Form Spam
In 2005, we launched a web application for our campus that allows our users, especially those with no technical knowledge, to produce web forms. Why did we do this? Mostly, we did it because everyone always wanted a form and my group had to build them all. We had been using the ancient FormMail.pl but [...]
Season Your Passwords with some Salt
Let’s say you’re building a big new web app at your institution. One of the parts of this application will be storing usernames and passwords. There are a ton of ways to do this, but today I want to share with you one way that I do things, in the hopes of making my logins [...]
