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Episode 113 - PHP.net compromised, Flexbox in your future?
The PHP.net website was compromised, but we don't yet know what the exploit was. Â No actual code or binaries were affected; the site was just serving up javascript malware. Healtcare.gov is still a mess, but are there lessons we can learn about project
Episode 112 - Facebook CSRF, KnockoutJS 3
I think I'm missing something about apigility.org - help me figure it out. Â Facebook's team fixes CSRF exploit in 2 hours. Â Is Rails' CookieStore broken by default, or working just fine? Â KnockoutJS 3 was released - upgrade/change notes are here for yo
Episode 111 - 8 years and counting
So... this is the 8 year anniversary of webdevradio - what's changed in the last 8 years? Â Lots! Â What's the same? Â Lots! Â I go in to a bit more detail than that... :) Some recent news as well... Rails 4 released PHP 5.5 released Modern.IE - downl
Episode 110: Azure hits 1 billion, RubyFlux compiler, Laracasts and more
OK, in no particular order: RubyFlux (article I originally found) TechEmpower round 5 Where is .NET headed? Web Components: Polymer Project and X-Tags LaraCasts Â
Episode 109: Typescript and a bit more…
Heading off to Russia for a bit - if there's anything you think I should see when I'm there, let me know :) Saw a good presentation on TypeScript recently, which has piqued my interest - hopefully it piques yours as well. Â This blog post from techempow
Episode 108: New Ruby, Regex and my Framework Security Rant(tm)
Ruby 2 was just released, and the new 'refinements' feature presents some interesting challenges for JRuby and just about anyone wanting to read Ruby code. Â Brief chat about the regex security affecting Rails back in January, but more broadly speaking, w
Episode 107: Testing Talk with Paul Merrill
I got a chance to chat with Paul about some of his experiences as a testing consultant, recommended tools, war stories and more. Â Have a listen :) Paul is with Beaufort Fairmont, a testing consulting firm in North Carolina.
Episode 106: Freelancing interview with Matchist.com founders
I got a chance to speak with Stella Feyman and Tim Jahn about their new service Matchist, which serves as a matchmaking service focused on the needs of freelancers. Forgive the slight hiss on my audio - I could not determine the source. Matchist :: Free
Episode 105: Font tools, design thoughts, parallel deployment, and my Florida road trip
Hello all from sunny Florida :) Recently discovered jquery validation plugin only 6 years too late, and have found some tools that work in conjunction with it, including Pajama, a PHP library. Also have some links to font combination articles and tools
Episode 104: A few infrastructure services and version control
I've found a couple of neat infrastructure services recently and hope you find them interesting and useful. Also... what's the deal with solo developers not using version control? freelancepath :: new community for web freelancers uptano