Recent OpenID relying party vulnerabilities
The OSIS I5 OpenID interop testing is well underway. Last weekend while testing some OpenID relying party web sites, John Bradley happened upon a web site that failed a particularly…
How I got OpenID working with Ruby on Rails
After spending two hours searching for good documentation for using OpenID as my authentication for my Ruby on Rails app and being disappointed in lack of examples and other documentation,…
Getting Ruby on Rails 1.0 running on Gentoo
After ignoring the advice to use Ruby 1.8.2 instead of the more recent 1.8.3, I got the “uninitialized constant Mysql” error and decided to downgrade. With Gentoo, this was very…
Not a fan of scripting languages
Let me first be clear, that I am not a fan of scriptinglanguages. They certainly have their place, but I would neverwrite an entire application with one. I wouldn’t even…