Becoming a Better Developer Series

Today I came across Rob Walling’s series of articles on becoming a better developer through ways other than improving your technical skills. Quite an interesting read, here’s a quick rundown:

Making Fans – “learning about your company and co-workers will dramatically improve the software you build”
Know Your Core Competencies – “When dealing with tasks completely outside [...]

XSS and SQL Injections from user input

Having been stressing online forms of my fellow developers at work, and reading Eric Farraro’s posts on Cross Site Scripting and his recent Google exploit, I figured just how important user input validation is, and the need to emphasise that.
Both XSS and SQL Injections are simple exploits that work on a basic assumption that a [...]

Your Computer Science ISU in 20 lines

The Independent Study Unit (ISU or ISP in some schools) usually involves an independent programming project at the end of the year, to demonstrate what students have learned. More often than not, it turns out to be a troublesome excercise as advanced students try to show off and over-complicate their assignment, while others are having [...]