Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Form Security with Autocomplete
Friday, April 10th, 2009
I was looking through my blog this morning because I could have sworn I already wrote this post. I know I’ve had this conversation with Phil Nash of Unintentionally Blank. But I guess I never wrote it down? Oh well… One of my pet peeves when filling out a form is when I click in [...]
Tags: forms, ui
Posted in Security | 8 Comments »
Using .htaccess to Prevent Bandwidth Theft
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Every once in a while Google Analytics will turn up a peculiar behavior where you can tell someone is linking directly to an image hosted on your Web server. Sometimes it can be for good reasons like giving you credit for a project, or make sure files are synced up (cross-domain projects); but it’s usually [...]
Tags: htaccess, HTTP
Posted in Security | 10 Comments »
Securing your Development Space
Monday, September 15th, 2008
You can hide your development space from the public many ways, a weird URL no one will find, use a local testing server (localhost), or set up a development server. Up until my last redesign I was just using a directory called dev under csskarma.com. And that was fine, but my file paths would all [...]
Tags: htaccess, htpasswd
Posted in Security, Web Development | 5 Comments »
