Finding Applications for Blackjack II

iPhone Purchase I feel so ripped off! When they first released the iPhone I purchased one at the AT&T store. The price was steep, the phone was cool, and the fact that I had to sign up for more than a basic data plan was less than appealing. I ended up taking my iPhone back [...]

OpenID Alternative to Multiple Passwords

A few days ago I wrote about some of the software I use for personal password management. Today I’d like to write about a movement that could very well replace the need for all those passwords. I’m talking about identity federation using OpenID. Identity federation simply means that a user can log into one site, [...]

Personal Password Management

As a web technology person, I sign up for a lot of online accounts. Everything from personal photo sites to online banking, security wikis to open source projects. Recently I decided my password security was not the best because I only had about 8 standard passwords I would use across all my website accounts. I [...]

Moving Pains From .NET to PHP

I know I haven’t blogged in a while, but my friend Chris Weldon has spurred me into action with a post of his titled Flexible and Pragmatic Automated PHP Development. As I read this I found myself identifying with a lot of his problems. Chris started out as a PHP developer and recently trained and [...]