http://blog.rictic.com Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:02:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (I'm hoping to jump-start my blog again with a few short posts about neat tricks and programs I use that save time and give me that kick-ass feeling.) Marco Polo (freebase, versiontracker) is an app that's all about getting out of your way. With Marco Polo you describe certain contexts ... http://blog.rictic.com/2007/10/16/kick-ass_context/ Steve Yegge often writes about a wide variety of issues, focusing more on the social and human element of programming. His most recent post about body modification, social mores, and more deeply about disruptive change and how societies respond has gotten me thinking. His thoughts about body modification ... http://blog.rictic.com/2006/08/24/disruptive-change/ 'Javascript' and 'security' aren't two words that often go together, except as a punch line or a posting to the DailyWTF.  However, javascript is less limited than many think, and when used in combination with a bit of server-side code you can implement a standard challenge-response style authentication system that ... http://blog.rictic.com/2006/05/16/password-security-with-javascript/ I've been looking into and adopting Test Driven Development lately, and I've run across some neat tools that can improve the TDD experience a good deal. stakeout is a program that utilizes some native OSX tricks to run a script every time a file is changed. I wrote a bit ... http://blog.rictic.com/2006/04/30/rapid-tdd-in-osx/ I'll try to keep the metablogging to a minimum, but I figured I might as well note that I've changed blog software from Typo to Wordpress.  Typo's given me a bit of trouble in the past, but the real reason I switched was the annoying random Application Errors that plague ... http://blog.rictic.com/2006/04/30/blog-software-change/