HTTP File Uploads

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Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Here's a chance for Opera to shine again: Make a better interface for file uploading.

PHP on .NET?

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Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Microsoft's ASP.NET has a lot of useful features, things you might want to have in PHP too. But you can't run PHP as a .NET language because Microsoft already has ASP.NET… or can you? It appears that some Czech programmers came up with this idea few years ago and they made …

MacGyver and programming

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Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera The other day I thought about using MacGyver as an example when talking about programming. Why MacGyver? In the TV series, he builds clever tools from common everyday things. I think this is why MacGyver is a very good programming analogy – in both good and bad.

Preventing cross-site scripting attacks

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Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Cross-site scripting attacks, also known as XSS attacks, are a type of vulnerability found in some web sites. For example, if your blog comment box allows users to write JavaScript snippets that aren't escaped in any way by the server and are ran, it's most likely vulnerable to an XSS attack. …

About Flash and RIA's

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I've been working with Flash lately, or more precisely, Flex 2. Flex is like Flash for programmers (more on that later in this post) Not so long ago, I also tried Flash Lite, which is a lightweight version of Flash for mobile devices. What started as a tool to create annoying animations and unusable interfaces has gone a long way, …