http://ne0phyte.com Musician, developer, and software architect... aka ne0phyte Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:51:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I put together a new web site dedicated to my viola career. It hosts my profile, repertoire, and contact information. Soon I will start a media gallery with photos and personal recordings. http://stevewamsley.com Comments are welcome. http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/09/08/my-next-new-web-site/ Out on my deck, I had this spider that wove a web that must have been 2 feet in diameter. My first instinct was to tear down the web and squash the little bugger. But I had some crisis of Buddhist-like conscience when I thought about how long it took ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/09/07/stubborn-spider/ Whenever I bring a new case of soda home, I like to stick one in the freezer to get it nice and cold. Except yesterday, I forgot about it and went to bed early. At around 4 in the morning, I woke up to a "pop" sound from the kitchen. What ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/09/07/oops-dont-do-this/ I had an occassion where I had to capture the "enter" key press in a text box and couldn't quite remember how to do that. So, like the well-adjusted web developer I am, I Google'd for the answer. I was suprised to find how many different solutions there were and ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/09/02/javascript-keypress-event/ Here is a more reasonable bike route that I plan on doing tomorrow. It's 4+ mikes and I estimate it will take about 40 min. New Ballwin LoopFind more Bike Rides in Ballwin, Missouri http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/07/11/a-more-reasonable-bike-route/ Exploratory Biking is kinda like exploratory surgery - only more painful and it lasts longer. OK, so I set out on a bike ride last Sunday because I was bored. Unfortunately, my boredom lead me to get lost in West County and ended up riding for 1.5 hours - over ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/07/09/exploratory-biking/ The KeyStore API is code complete. Check it out at phpkeystore.org. The current development release can always be installed with PEAR using: pear install http://phpkeystore.org/download/KeyStore-current.tgz All that really remains right now is internal tweaking for best practices and performance. To summarize the functionality, the key management functionality consists of: Loading and storing the key ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/07/01/phpkeystore-update/ The PHPKeyStore web site, wiki, and trac are now up. Here are the links: Web Site Wiki Source Trac Downloads The web site, wiki, and source are browsable by anyone. Also, a PEAR package proposal has been submitted. We're waiting to hear back from the PEAR community. http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/06/28/phpkeystore-web-site-development-release/ The following forty five (45) Internet/network security gotchas are taken from Firewalls and Internet Security - Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition (ISBN: 0-201-63344-X) by William R. Cheswick, et. al. IP source addresses aren't trustable. Fragmented packets have been abused to avoid security checks. ARP-spoofing can lead to session-hijacking. Sequence number attacks can be ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/05/16/internet-network-gotchas/ Designing applications for the web requires an up-front security mind-set. It does not matter if the application takes credit card payments or if it hosts static web content. A public web site is just that: a public portal to computer assets that someone out there on the Internet will eventually ... http://ne0phyte.com/blog/2008/05/16/application-security-truisms/