Twitter and Plus Addressing

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

If you’re like me you might have a few Twitter accounts registered by now. They require a unique e-mail address for each account, but apparently plus addressing is completely legit. With services like GMail supporting them, I’m now free to register as many accounts as I want!



Google Chrome, Fixed

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The latest Dev Channel version with the “–new-http” switch fixes all the problems I had with Google Chrome for me. Kudos to the team!



Google Chrome Dev Channel

Friday, September 26th, 2008

If you are using Google Chrome and want to keep up with the latest updates switch to the dev channel: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.



Google Chrome — Fast, but Unstable

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I gave Google Chrome a quick spin. At least two problems came out:

Digest-based authentication isn’t handle correctly, the sent request does not include the query causing 400 Bad Request
Google Analytics will randomly crash the Flash plugin freezing the whole browser (with all the talk of isolated processes…)

On the immediate positive side it fixed my main [...]



URL-based session is insecure and so is JavaBlogs.com

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

There are two main ways to associate a session state with a user — session cookies and session URL parameters. However for public sites there may be some risks for the URL-based approach.
Cookies are saved on the computer and are only ever sent in requests to the domain that has saved them. They have always [...]