Archives for Mar 2007
sequential shock
Yesterday was comic book day, and I picked up Y: THE LAST MAN #55. Something happened that’s never happened to me before: reading the comic made me jump. That’s a difficult thing to do without adding intentionally loud sound effects, especially when nearly every other page is a lame video game ad (to be fair, Vertigo is a more mature imprint, so it’s half video games, half ads for other comics). Anyways, kudos to Brian Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
(If you have no clue what I’m talking about, Y: The Last Man is a monthly comic series, just entering its final story arch. Vaughan has written a lot of other fantastic comics (and some mediocre ones), and recently joined the cast of the LOST TV show as a writer.)
Is this thing on?
Apparently my shady registrar has been preventing some folks from visiting some sites. Can you guys get to all these: Mephisto Blog, Active Reload, Encytemedia? This isn’t some ploy for attention, but Justin has flaky access, and I’ve gotten some emails about other folks too. So far we haven’t had any luck with domain transfers.
Update: Thanks for the updates, everyone. I’ve started a transfer with Moniker Had some issues, going with godaddy now.
selling out
So, I’ve sold out and set up a tumblelog. Though I can do what I want on this blog, I feel like posting out-of-context quotes or pics would break up any flow this site may have. I’m also in direct violation of rule #1 of the tumblelogging manifesto, write your own software to do it. Honestly, Mephisto can power a tumblelog too, but having a specific interface for it is nice. Justin’s been exposing me to some cool ruby/cocoa/objective c stuff, so I may end up doing something for Mephisto. Just after I add APP support.
next up: a myspace or virb profile…
Stupid Ruby Tricks
If Tumblr can inject some life while another blog lays dormant, I’d say it’s a win.
Dealing with CSRF Attacks in Rails Apps
I’ve posted my first technical blog article on the Active Reload blog: Your Requests Are Safe With Us. It’s a rundown of the CSRF Killer plugin for Rails apps that I developed while working on Lighthouse. I was working on an examination of the cool keyword searching in Lighthouse, but I saw yet another CSRF article today and wanted to get my plugin out there.
Expect more of those technical Lighthouse posts. Since it’s not an open source app, I’m extracting what I can into useful rails plugins, ruby libraries, and informational blog posts.
