This is one of those posts where I don’t talk about coding, sorry, but it’s still about technology so hopefully I don't scare you guys off. So what is this I want to talk about, well my podcast of course, Coding QA. Somewhere February last year (2009) I got the idea that I wanted to host my own podcast. I had been listening to various podcasts for awhile and thought it would be fun to host my own. I spent a few weeks bounce ideas around in head about what I wanted my podcast to be about. After...
One of the more tricky things to learn when you are developing for the web is to know when and how to encode the content you’re delivering. There are a couple high level reasons as to why you need to encode your content. First is that some characters just are not valid in URLs and attributes which could cause your links and html to not work properly. Secondly, and by far the most important is that if you are outputting user generated content to the page you want to protect against HTML injection. Forgive me but I am going to...