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What is good SQL?
Lately, I have been working with a lot of legacy SQL and this has caused me to think about what makes SQL (and database designs) good and bad. There is a concept called ACID, defined within ISO/IEC...
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Joe’s New “Life Hack”: Getting Rid of One Thing Per Day
Anybody who knows me well enough knows that I am a bit of a packrat. I have been trying to work on that. I think I have settled on a good plan. I am going to get rid of one thing per day. “Get rid”...
View ArticleHow Joe Computes (or Adventures in Absurdity)
I have been promising to write this post, for a while. A few months back, I spent some significant time looking at what technology I need in my life. I do not believe that I have reached techno-zen...
View ArticleData binding and templating with Rivets
In my day job, I have been writing a lot of JavaScript, lately. The system already heavily uses jQuery and the addition of Angular would have been a tough sell. I started to look for an alternative...
View ArticleHow to use FileReader() to generate data URLs
These days, the lines between the web and the local environment can be very blurry. There is a web API called FileReader() that nicely adds to that blurriness. It lets you asynchronously read the...
View ArticleGenerating random numbers with the Web Cryptography API
The W3C has been working on a Web Cryptography API for a while, now. The current version (11 December 2014) is their “Candidate Recommendation”. As such, I would not necessarily consider it fully...
View ArticleHow to generate keys with the Web Cryptography API
I have been playing around with the Web Cryptography API a lot lately. My most recent post was about getRandomValues(). I wanted to take a moment to investigate two more methods: generateKey() and...
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Why are the default credentials in the realm attribute?
Recently, I was poking around on Shodan (as I do when I am bored) and I stumbled across an interesting query. If you search for “Default: admin/1234”, you get over 14,000 devices that are broadcasting...
View ArticleHow to use filter() to search a JavaScript object
In a lot of modern web applications, the front-end ends up receiving query result as a JSON object and the result is then formatted on the client-side. In this post, I am going to show how you can use...
View ArticleHow to get the source of objects within JavaScript
There is an interesting little method within JavaScript called toSource() that can give you some nice insights into your variables. The resulting output can differ greatly, depending on the variable...
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