Programming
Using HTML Purifier in Code Igniter to clean user generated content
Accepting user-generated content into your web application is one of the most risky parts of web application development.
Apart from the possibility of the user input containing HTML tags which may break your design and layout, there is also a wide range of security exploits, often via JavaScript, opened as soon as HTML user input is [...]
How to aggregate all of the answers to your StackOverflow questions into a single feed using Yahoo! pipes
Feed
Here is the feed I create in this article. Add your own user id to the URL to track your own answers by RSS:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ev_bWpYu3hGmnRCJgQSecQ&_render=rss&StackOverflow_UserID=42106
StackOverflow
I am a big fan of StackOverflow. The team there, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky (and friends) have created an extremely valuable resource which goes some way to solving the many coding frustrations [...]
Music for programming
Programming requires a lot of concentration. When I program, I need a steady supply of background music to stop me from getting distracted and to help me focus.
I am quite picky about the music I listen to:
It needs to be totally non-distracting. Meaning very few words, if any at all.
My concentration needs to last for [...]