Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Founder of SportShots.ai and Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.com.
A few months ago I released a simple cookie-only authentication library for simple websites. Security is getting more important these days so I decided to release my secure library that I use for more serious/bigger ...
Amazon's Simple Storrage Service is a great service for storing lots of files on a solid and stable system. I have been experimenting with it for a few days and quickly found the need for a CodeIgniter library ...
Codeigniter has no functionality for handling multiple views/themes/layouts. This gives the developer a lot of freedom to choose what template library he wants to use, but some may find this a bit of a struggle. ...
Beneath my desk I have an Intel i5 (Asus H67) powered Windows 2008 R2 server running serving as a NAS with a whole bunch of hard drives. The disk mode is set to 'RAID' in the BIOS because of a RAID 1 array ...
Codeigniter 2.0 adds an new security feature to prevent CSRF attacks. Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is one of the most common vulnerabilities in websites and web applications.
One of the most common suggestions on Google's page speed test is Leverage browser caching . This means that for those resources the browser does not know how long to keep these file in its cache.
On all my websites I redirect all users to the domain including the www prefix. I prefer it this way just because I think it looks cleaner. I have read that it might have an effect on google's pagerank but ...
Many of you guys prefer to just download a complete code instead of reading my 3 piece tutorial on how to create this library. For those guys I will put a basic codigniter authentication library available for download here
In the previous part of the authentication library posts I explained how to generate a secure token for each user and the basic functions that are needed to create and delete the cookie.
We will generate a unique personal authentication token that will tell us whether the user is logged in or not. To do so we will use the hash_hmac function to get our token:
Website security is becoming more and more important to every web developer. I wanted to write a simple yet secure authentication library for Codeigniter that would not need a lot of resources. By writing this ...
The last few days I did some research about Lithium-ion batteries that are used by cellphones, laptops and many other electronic devices. Whenever I get a new device I try to take care of the battery as much ...
While working on some websites I needed a javascript that would open all external links in a new windows. So I did a quick search on google, only to find a lot of different solutions for this problem. Most ...
When you have a Windows bootcamp partition, Apple's bootcamp setup will install a 'Dutch - Apple' keyboard layout. But for some strange reason this layout is not completely correct. The official keyboard layout will ...
When regularly switching between operating systems like Windows 7 and Mac OSX like myself, you'll often notice handy features missing in both operating systems that you're used to. One of the things I missed in ...