Loging into a page on shell with curl

Hi guys,

it had been a little bit quite the last time but by now I got a little something you might need to. In my current project I had been running into the problem that I wanted to address a certain Javaservice with a deployment script on the shell. This was the easy part , the even harder part, which took some time talking to uncle google to get an answer, was that this service needed an authentication by a cookie which needs to have a valid session id in it.

Developing a clock in Flash with AS3

Ok guys, this time we won´t do any php. This time it will all be about Flash and Actionscript 3.0. As I told you in some of the tutorials before I am working for a German ISP at the moment which is on it´s way to launch a new portal. This portal website will also hold some widgets that will provide the users with some basic functionality.

This tutorial will cover the alarm clock that comes with two layouts, analog and digital.

Javascript leashed with google Caja

Like I wrote recently I am contracted at a German ISP at the moment to build a new Portal where one can put several different widgets on his or her personal web page. Similar to igoogle. My customer also wants to provide the possibility of own widgets to external developers, so to avoid security issues we will need to sandbox each of those widgets, but like we all know that can be a serious problem when it comes to the “evil unleashed monster” javascript. So in order to leash it inside a sandbox on a secure chain we came across google caja.

Sometimes I wonder about Developers

Lately I came across a nice article at “der fiese Admin” about the security leak at a German portal for kids, that made me wonder about the work attitude of some of my so called colleagues.

Security issues happen from time to time, nobody can possibly built a bullet proof website, someone will find a hole in your system from time to time, we all know that, but … guys honestly ?!

Busy lately

Lately I had to do some designs for a website, business cards and stationery for some lawyers I work for. Those I will show you as soon as they are final. Also I had to do a layout for a website of a photographer who is a friend of mine, this I will also share the moment it is final.

Then I have started on the solr extension project for TYPO3 I work on with Ingo Renner and dkd, where my current task is to set up a BE Module for the extension with extbase and fluid. A Good kick start for me at those topics and Typo3 4.3 .

16 Impressive Wash Basin Designs

Lately I came across this website with some really impressive designs for wash basins. The ones of you who know me know that I am really addicted to great design, either online and in real life. That´s why I´d like to share the link to that website with you.

16 Impressive Wash Basin Designs

Development with jQuery & Qunit

Though a friend of mine and myself lately started again with continuous integration projects for the company’s we work for, and we both like test driven development, if it is no overkill, I came across Qunit which is a library provided by jQuery for Unittesting javascript. Until last week I did not even know something like this existed for Javascript, but I am very happy that I came across this .  Because I think unittests are a good way to assure that your code works as expected, I´d like to show you how to setup and write jQuery unittests.

Thank you all

Ok guys I think I have to say this,
I am honestly surprised by all the good feedback I got so far. I am just blogging for a week by now, because I wanted to give it a chance, see how it will go. It is fun to me. I really enjoy writing, and to share some knowledge I gained during the past 10 years in this business. I think I will be around for a while, and you all made it very easy for me with the feedback I got lately, to take some time for writing almost every day.

Thank you and stay tuned.

Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, OpenAgile, Lean)

Lately by reading an article of a good friend of mine (original post) about agile development, I found the link to this article within his post which I´d like to share with you, because it is a pretty good sum up of the mistakes and misunderstandings out there about scrum and agile development:
Agile/Pervagile on Slashdot

Nice article about using CSS Sprites

Traveling around some websites I just found this nice article about the advantages of using CSS – Sprites. Using them for a while now at several projects, to my mind the is a nice summary of how and why to use them.

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them