Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings » Website http://cosine.org Life and Ruby and Security Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:48:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 OpenID and Testing http://cosine.org/2008/03/01/openid-testing/ http://cosine.org/2008/03/01/openid-testing/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:20:44 +0000 Cosine Jeremiah http://www.cosine.org/2008/03/01/openid-testing/ Earlier this month I was playing with a WordPress plugin that would add OpenID support for the blog here. My intention is to make it easier to signup for commenting, while still not opening the flood gates of anonymous posting to avoid spam (I am not a big fan of CAPTCHAs). Unfortunately, the hosting environment is still on PHP4 and the plugin requires PHP5. I could probably fix the code to work with PHP4, but I have better things to do for now so the OpenID support will wait a bit.

Also, I want to share this bit posted on Jim Weirich’s blog. He said it is on his wall, and I liked it so much that it is also on mine now, too.

]]> http://cosine.org/2008/03/01/openid-testing/feed/ 0 Where Have I Been? http://cosine.org/2007/11/14/where/ http://cosine.org/2007/11/14/where/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:06:42 +0000 Cosine Jeremiah http://www.cosine.org/2007/11/14/where/ If you started reading this blog recently, you might wonder where I have been for the last two weeks. I apologize for my absence. I have been extremely busy working with a wonderful team on a new project. I have dedicated all of my spare time to that, so I have not had time to write articles here. However, I promise I will be back in business with new posts in another week or two! Thanks!

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]]> http://cosine.org/2007/08/01/registration/feed/ 0 Ruby, Rails, Applicaton Security, and more! http://cosine.org/2007/06/20/ruby-rails-applicaton-security/ http://cosine.org/2007/06/20/ruby-rails-applicaton-security/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:28:01 +0000 Cosine Jeremiah http://www.cosine.org/musings/2007/06/23/ruby-rails-applicaton-security-and-more/ I’ve decided that cosine.org should be dedicated to my favorite computer topics: Ruby, Rails, application security, and OpenBSD. This is all awesome stuff. Stuff that is awesomely interesting to me. However my level of knowledge in these topics varies a bit, and it creates a perplexing situation for me.

Firstly, my recent computer research efforts have been to learn yet more about application security. I know what I know very well, but I also know when I feel a weakness in my knowledge—and I need to do more with application security to advance my knowledge there. I have all the basics now; the next step is application.

Additionally, I need to do more with Rails. I know Ruby very well, and it is absolutely the best programming language I have ever used. I have dabbled with Rails know the basics, but I need to do something useful with it so I have an ongoing Rails project to care for. Without something like that my knowledge in Rails has not broken a mediocre level, and I have fallen behind in recent advances that the Rails core team has delivered recently. An update to this very website into a Rails powered site is very likely! ;)

In summary, the two areas I want to target my development is application security and Rails. Tune in to see what I decide to do with each of these. Drop me a line if you want to chat about it! I love talking about these subjects, so I will love to talk.

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I still want to use cosine.org for some stuff, but I’m not sure how I’m going to manage it yet. It would be a good place for a technical blog, but so would cosinewave.net along with the comic. Decisions!

Right now cosine.org is all static content. That’s not ideal for a blog, where comments are nifty. So something’s going to have to give. I’d write a small Rails app for the task, but the site I’m hosting on is too low on RAM to handle even one Rails application except using the CGI gateway (slooow!).

And by the way, although I’ve been saying it out loud for five years, I’ll say it again right here: If you program and you haven’t looked at Ruby yet, you will kick yourself when you do someday and wonder why you didn’t check it out sooner. So just check it out, okay? No, just knowing Python is not sufficient. Ruby is a cut above. I’ve been saying this for five years, but I’m not good at sales. Ruby will speak for itself when you learn it, okay? Trust me!

And if I end up being a big fat liar with my pants on fire about this Ruby stuff, you probably didn’t lose much time figuring it out, did you? Oh, you haven’t looked at Ruby yet? Dammit, GO LOOK NOW!

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