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Be Careful Of Transliteration

This is the fifteenth security tip from Laravel Security in Depth.Subscribe to receive weekly security tips and monthly In Depth emails covering Laravel Security topics. Transliteration is the method of converting text from one set of characters to another, in a predictable way. Usually with the goal of maintaining readability (although this doesn’t usually extend to […]

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Hello World (again)!

Welcome to my new website. It’s been a long while since I rebuilt my last one (two jobs ago, infact!), so I figured I should launch a new site and get back into the blogging thing. It may surprise some of you, but my site is now running on WordPress again. Yup, WordPress. There are […]

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Waking Early… is hard!

If you haven’t heard of Leo Babauta before, you definitely need to check out his website Zen Habits: Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. As a way to be more active […]

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A really long compilation window…

A very simple representation of the procedure programmers follow when developing systems looks like this: The client (sometimes the programmer themselves) comes to the programmer with a problem which needs to be solved. The programmer comes up with a solution to the problem, this can range anywhere from simply saying “I can solve this!” to […]