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Chris Shiflett

Hi, I'm Chris, a web developer and a founding member of Analog. I live and work in Brooklyn, NY.

PHP & Web Application Security Blog

Aug 2010

Mozilla Account Manager

For some time now, I've been happily using 1Password to manage all of my online accounts. I really like it and recommend it to all of my friends, but I do have a few reservations: It uses a propriet...

PHP Anthem

Yesterday on IRC, Andrei Zmievski mentioned a new song about PHP. Sean Coates linked to a YouTube video with the song, which I then mentioned on Twitter: PHP finally has an anthem. This is what we’v...

Jul 2010

Auto Increment with MongoDB

We are currently working on an app that uses a number of technologies, including PHP, Python, and MongoDB. Recently, a need arose to use sequential identifiers for users, similar to an auto_increment column ...

Jun 2010

Change Blindness and Zooming Out

Two weeks ago, I had the great honor of giving a keynote at the Dutch PHP Conference. Because I had never been to Amsterdam or to the Dutch PHP Conference, I was really excited to have a chance to speak ...

May 2010

URL Sentences

Two and a half years ago, I was helping Jon Tan redesign a web site. We share an affinity for organization and structure, but we also like to experiment with new ideas. One morning via Skype, I shared a c...

Apr 2010

CSS Naked Day

Where did my design go? For the fourth consecutive year (2007, 2008, 2009), I'm participating in CSS Naked Day. The CSS Naked Day site has not been updated, but this year's CSS Naked Day is Fri, 09 Apr 20...

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Mario Arroyo wrote:

The article is really very good and the users comments and external links to another articles jus...

Posted in Session Fixation
Raphael Almeida wrote:

I realy like hiphop music, but this is very crazy! We'll use it in user group PHP conference at ...

Posted in PHP Anthem
Mal wrote:

Having used smarty for many years, this has never been a problem for me, but after building a web...

Posted in PHP Stripping Newlines
Satya wrote:

Thanks for the info. I have posted the news here on my page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-Sc...

Posted in PHP Anthem
John wrote:

Oh, you need to press "save your password".

Posted in Mozilla Account Manager
John wrote:

The windows version doesn't seem to work with your demo :(

Posted in Mozilla Account Manager

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