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This makes me wonder; how is it appropriate to handle vulnerabilities such as these? A few months ago, I decided (as an experiment to see how common XSS actually is) to click on ra…

Hey, all. My weekend project was to make an experimentally viral web application, similar to threewords.me. If anyone has tips on making it more "viral" or better in general, I'd b…

Perhaps this question is too general, but when should someone start a start-up? When you see a need? Or have a "million-dollar idea"? When you're young/old? Before/during/after col…

Check out Selenium ( http://seleniumhq.org/ ). It's pretty decent.

I'd recommend avoiding PHP. For quick prototyping, I'd recommend Rails, though (in my opinion) Ruby/Sinatra or Python/Tornado would be better overall.

Well, with CouchDB, you have to pre-define all of your queries with "views". And the first time you call a view, it has to run your mapping function against -every- document in the…

It's one of my dreams to make something which makes someone who I don't know say, "Wow! That's cool!" Either that or build a community. Or both! However, I'm unsure how to do that.…

Q: Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween with Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.

Hmm. This is rather difficult. I'm under a lot of pressure from my parents to move out of the house and support myself. However, I have no experience doing anything else. I've appl…

I live near Seattle.

I'm a 19-year-old, self-taught programmer (C/C++, Ruby/Rails and PHP, mostly). I'm in the middle of a transitional year between high school and college and I know that I'd like to …