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23 January 2004

I managed to catch the lurgy from Rachel, so I’ve been pretty much off my feet for the last couple of days. I’m starting to come out the other side though, and hope to have some interesting OS X discussion.

A note-worthy happening so far today is that I hooked up my PowerBook to our network at work, and It Just Worked. There was no need to reconfigure a thing – I opened up Safari and there was the web. I could get mail, browse the LAN with SMB, and hook up to the MySQL server running on my development box. Sweeet.

Worth a read is Simon’s post on Defending web applications against dictionary attacks and particularly the discussion that follows it. I really like sil’s suggestion of using an English Comprehension question as a security check.

- Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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