Javascript

Jul 20 2008 - Networks, Assignment 1 ... I just finished my first assignment in a beginning networking course I’m taking and I am so far pretty impressed with how interesting this stuff is. I have a working knowledge of networking that includes decent understanding of the application layer, high level knowledge of the transport layer and basically just awareness of the link layer. It’s pretty rare that in my position as a developer that I need to answer questions about the link layer.
May 13 2008 - Javascript session hacking ... I had to blog this, and yeah I'm going to be the billionth person to do so, but that's ok because no one reads my blog and it's basically just my personal public archive. (ppa?) This guy http://www.thomasfrank.se/sessionvars.html has managed to find a very clever place to store data within the browser without resorting to cookies, flash or anything beyond basic cross browser javascript. Apparently "window.name" which lost it's usefulness when the spammers started making popups obsolete can contain arbitrarily long strings that persist as long as that window is open (equivalent to a session cookie)