2015 Jul 7, 7:41
Love it: "Never give your parents a hard time about having to teach
them computer stuff. They had to teach you to use a spoon."
2015 Apr 12, 10:39 2015 Apr 12, 10:27 2015 Apr 2, 12:23 2015 Mar 30, 12:19
For the second time today, I've added a new feature to Fiddler only to
discover it was already there.
2015 Feb 1, 6:02 2015 Jan 27, 11:08 2015 Jan 21, 1:05 2015 Jan 21, 12:40 2015 Jan 15, 9:32 2012 Jul 16, 1:59
Former FireFox developer on the switch to their continuous update cycle.
Oh no, Chrome is doing such-and-such; we’d better do something equivalent or we’ll fall behind! We thought we needed a rapid update process like Chrome. We were jealous of their rapid update
capability, which let them deploy improvements to users continuously. We had to “catch up” with Chrome’s updating capability.
Dealing with servicing on IE for years had led me to some of the same thoughts when I heard FireFox was switching to continuous updates.
firefox via:ericlaw web-browser technical web browser servicing update software 2012 Jun 23, 9:19
THE Fiddler Book straight from the source, EricLaw - the developer of Fiddler!
Fiddler is a wonderful tool with never ending extensibility. With this book I shall master it!
technical programming book ericlaw fiddler http 2012 May 11, 6:28
We never recovered the bicycle, of course. The lock itself wasn’t attacked at all, as you can see.
technical moral-of-the-story security via-ericlaw lock 2012 Jan 6, 6:20
FTA: “Three mountain ranges, four lakes and a fucking Sound. That’s a geographical feature your hometown hasn’t even heard of.”
humor via-ericlaw seattle 2011 Nov 14, 12:37
Draw ShapeCatcher a symbol and ShapeCatcher shows you the characters in Unicode that look similar. Try a smiley face. (via Eric Lawrence)
technical unicode via:ericlaw 2010 Mar 26, 5:16Interesting point that web browsers block HTML FORMs from submitting to some ports in order to avoid malicious servers from getting clients to do their dirty work. Of course it requires the host on
the other side of that port to be able to interpret the HTTP request as something relevant to the protocol they actually expect.
security web browser ie http html form technical 2010 Jan 22, 1:44"He seeded the customer's parking lot with USB flash drives, each of which had a Trojan horse installed on it. When the employees arrived for work in the morning, they were quite excited to find the
free gadgets laying around the parking lot. Employees eagerly collected the USB drives and plugged them into the first computers they came across: their own workstations."
via:ericlaw security usb windows social-engineering computer technical 2009 Dec 15, 2:01"Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror fame) was in for a horror when he realized that his server crashed and his data was gone and due to some reason, the backup mechanism was not working. ... So what should
Jeff do now? Since Coding horror is a high traffic blog, I think there is a way to get back at least some of the images." Reconstruct the HTML from Google's cache, change the HTTP server to tell the
client it has the correct cached image for all the images, add script to the HTML to grab the images and send them back. Awesome idea. Of course now I want to setup Fiddler to swap in random
images...
via:ericlaw jeff-atwood backup web http cache image javascript technical 2009 Nov 25, 7:09Relative URI resolution differences in browsers vs programming language libraries.
via:ericlaw url uri rfc web browser programming dotnet java technical