AJAX And Sessions

I came across an unusual situation in a PHP based shopping cart where the normal page loads would have different session data than the AJAX callbacks. I came up with a simple solution but I don’t really like it because it seems inherently insecure. But I’ll post it here, and let the world decide. The [...]

Evolution of Intelligence

I have been thinking quite a bit about the evolution of the human race, and our intelligence. Seems to me that our success as a species is due to our intelligence. So, what does that mean for us, and our future as a race? One day our sun will die and there will be no [...]

oDesk Sucks

I have been a Web applications developer for five years. I’ve worked on enormous projects, small projects and everything in between for the likes of NBC, and MTV as well as small companies and freelance work. Anyone familiar with this sort of work knows quite well that the earnings can be quite significant, and rewarding. [...]

Web Application Debugging Technique

I’ve just thought of a cool Web application debugging technique that allows me to see the value of something on the server side conveniently on the client side. Wherever I want to see the value of a variable in my server side script I can print a line of javascript that alert()s  the value of [...]

Joomla and Seyret … no Just Seyret

Seyret is quite possibly the best argument against outsourcing programming jobs to India. I can’t think of a worse product on any market. The author of Seyret (who’s name is Mustafa something) should be publically humiliated for selling this piece of shit even when he versions it at 0.2.x. The thing is so far from [...]