Tag: web
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Hacked Again
My site was hacked again the other day – this is common enough for WordPress sites. If you’re not on top of it you could have it hacked, pretty much automatically. This part I knew. It still got hacked, and I learned a few more things. 1 Back up your site! This could mean a…
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Canada domain name registry scam
I have been frustrated with this Domain Scam for a long time now. I have a few domain names, and I happen to be in Canada.  There is a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” that mails out official-looking envelopes (it looks like a government-issue brown windowed envelope) to everyone that has WHOIS information indicating they…
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Backbone dynamic elements
I recently discovered Backbone’s setElement function. What it allowed me to do was dynamically create a view’s container in Javascript and transfer/assign the view and its events to the new element. Using jQuery within the view initialize event: this.el = $(‘<div id=”\’newView\'”></div>’); this.setElement(this.el); $(‘#content’).append(this.el); I manipulated the this.el attribute directly, without using an interim variable,…
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REST Authentication
I did some research the other day to secure my REST API using The Slim framework. I found a tidy little way to force HTTP authentication (basic, in this case) using this article as well as the PHP manual. I get the client to provide the user name and password, then I can look up…
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New JavaScript book
I got my new Javascript book delivered yesterday. My first thought was that it was quite thin (it only has about 150 pages including the appendices and index)! I took a look at the first section, and it’s quite thorough; the author himself states that it is quite information-dense, and that it will require a…