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Jan 19, 2013 1 min read

A Decent Console for Windows

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On *nix we’re kind of spoilt when it comes to the CLI experience. The console I use most in a GUI environment is the great terminator.

Jan 5, 2013 1 min read

Generic Coding Standards and Guidelines

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When programming in a mixed-language environment, the naming conventions, formatting conventions, documentation conventions, and other conventions, can be optimised for overall consistency and readability. This may mean going against convention for one or more of the languages that’s part of the mix.

Dec 19, 2012 1 min read

JavaScript Coding Standards and Guidelines

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This is the current set of coding standards and guidelines I use when I’m coding in the JavaScript language. I thought it would be good to share so others could get use out of them also, and maybe start a discussion as to amendments / changes they see that could be useful?

Dec 1, 2012 1 min read

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The first thing to clear up is that TDD is not primarily about testing, but rather it forces the developer to write code that is testable (the fact the code has tests written for it and running regularly is a side effect, albeit a very positive one).

Nov 16, 2012 1 min read

Sanitising User Input from Browser part 2

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Untrusted data (data entered by a user), should always be treated as though it contains attack code. This data should not be sent anywhere without taking the necessary steps to detect and neutralise the malicious code.

Nov 4, 2012 1 min read

Sanitising User Input from Browser part 1

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I was working on a web based project recently where there was no security thought about when designing, developing it. The following outlines my experience with retrofitting security. It’s my hope that someone will find it useful for their own implementation.

Oct 2, 2012 1 min read

JavaScript Properties

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In ECMAScript 5 we now have two distinct kinds of properties.

Data properties
Accessor properties

Aug 12, 2012 1 min read

C Sharp Dot NET Coding Standards and Guidelines

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This is the current set of coding standards and guidelines I use when I’m coding in the C#.NET language. I thought it would be good to share so others could get use out of them also, and maybe start a discussion as to amendments / changes they see that could be useful?

Jul 28, 2012 1 min read

Guidance on Running Retrospectives

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Following is the five steps we use to run our Retrospectives. I’ve purposely made these as terse as possible, so it can be used as a check list as the retrospective progresses. Below the five steps I’ve added some extra info and tips.

Jul 14, 2012 1 min read

A Handful of Singletons in C Sharp

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Recently I was involved in an interview where I was queried on the Singleton Creational design pattern. I thought I’d share what I came up with. In order of preference from most to least used.