Security is a crucial subject that all web developers should know. After all, what good is a website if an attacker can cause it to go down in seconds? Unfortunately, it can be daunting to beginners when you start thinking of security simply as hoops you must jump through to have a safe site
What's the best way to protect your site from hacking? To actually try it out, and hack your own site! It can be a great learning experience to test out some common exploits on your site, and fix all your vulnerabilities.
Plus, it's pretty fun to see the different ways that people can get into and cause problems with your site. This post focuses on a few of the most common ways that people can do this.
Web development frameworks are wonderful things. They can generally help to make web development much simpler, by providing easy-to-use tools for common tasks such as database access, templates and session management. Many of them also include features to generally speed up development, such as use of an MVC pattern, and more.
In web development, organization is just as important as anything else. One way of being organized is by putting a web development toolkit, containing basic templates, copies of CMSes, and other tools, organized in a directory for quick access.
Here are some of the things that I keep in my web development toolkit.
I've written before on how to write readable code. It can be good to write readable code, but today, let's take that in another direction. Let's learn how to write completely unreadable code.
There are many different reasons to write unreadable code. Maybe you want to annoy others, or just have some fun. Whatever the reason, it's not very hard to write unreadable code. In fact, you might even do it without even knowing it.