Form Protection CSRF/XSS Nightmare today…

Posted by on Jul 25, 2011 in Blog, Geek Stuff, Web Development | No Comments
Form Protection CSRF/XSS Nightmare today…

If you have a PHP Problem, do you cross check it in another browser usually? Well I’ll do in the future.. This morning I implemented a XSS/CSRF protection into a newsletter subscription form. Usually I do it with a token, that will be generated during the frontend page load, and will be written in the ...

Browser based classic Sierra Adventure Games

Browser based classic Sierra Adventure Games

If you are like me, you love those old Sierra PC Games like Space Quest, Larry, Kings Quest and so on. Martin Kool, a crazy dutch guy ported some of the games for your browser completely based on XHTML/CSS and JS. At the moment he work  on a iPad port of Space Quest. check this ...

Plasma Effect with Processing

Posted by on Oct 8, 2010 in Blog, Geek Stuff, Programming | No Comments
Plasma Effect with Processing

I allways wanted to code “Plasma”, a psychedelic color palette effect. A FX seen a lot in Demos of the good old C-64 and Amiga days. I didn’t found any good example on the net, but a friend of mine gave me some hints and so I did it. The example should be easy to ...

Change the Mac OSX 10.6 currency symbol from “Sfr.” to “CHF”

Posted by on Mar 11, 2010 in Blog, Geek Stuff, Programming, Web Development | 3 Comments
Change the Mac OSX 10.6 currency symbol from “Sfr.” to “CHF”

At default, Mac Osx uses “Sfr.” as the currency symbol for swiss francs. This causes troubles because of the dot  in some applications. As Example in Billings, one of my favorite apps to do invoicing. To change the currency symbol on Mac Os X 10.6 open a terminal and type: defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleICUNumberSymbols -dict ...