A few days ago, Sean Cassidy of Praesidio released an application called LostPass that exploits phishing vulnerabilities in the LastPass password manager. See here: https://www.seancassidy.me/lostpass.html. Do not use a password manager to store anything important. You can…
This recent report of a TrendMicro vulnerability is very serious, but it made me laugh as I imagined the recipients of Tavis’ pithy wisdom scrambling to react.
The time-worn phrase “There must be a bug in the compiler” is usually a red flag. When I hear this I hear “There’s something wrong with my code, and I’m either too lazy or too inexperienced to figure…
I recently came across this article by Dennis Stevenson on why technical debt isn’t necessarily a bad thing, which struck a chord with me. Personally, I’m all about the refactoring. One startup I worked…
When I started in one role, I found that there was no source control or issue tracking system in place for my very small team. No source control was something I hadn’t seen since 1997. I absolutely could…
I had to do this recently, and Googling wasn’t much help. So in case any of you are in the same boat… Do a search and replace (Ctrl+h). In the ‘Find what’ box, leave the text…
Shipping was charged twice for my product by the WP e-commerce plugin when shipping was set to ‘flat rate’. I googled it and found that this problem has been recorded, but with no solution posted…
In VS2008, I set up a SQLDataSource and bound it to a GridView. The Gridview row had five editable fields and several read-only fields. I set up the SQLDataSource to use a stored procedure for…
In VS2008, I created a new file but it had no code-behind. Chose ‘File – New File – Web Form’. Several times. Tried loads of stuff. No code-behind – the aspx top line was: <%@ Page Language=”VB” %>.…