Chris Shiflett
Web Craftsmanship & Commentary
Nov 2013
Web Advent 2013
In 2007, overwhelmed with my jealousy of the Perl community's awesome Advent calendar, I decided PHP needed one, too. Of course, this thought didn't occur to me until the very end of November. Nonetheless, tha…
Apr 2013
Dark Patterns
Dark patterns have been around for a couple of years, but it seems like the concept is gaining steam lately. It’s normal for design (and copy) to try to modify behavior, but with more and more frequency,…
Mar 2013
Ideas of March
I wasn’t going to write about Ideas of March this year. I wasn’t even sure it was an idea worth spreading last year. It’s important to me, but I’m struggling to blog as often as I’…
XSS Is Still Tricky
This works in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Oh no!</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var xss = "</script><script>…
Jan 2013
2012 Highlights
This is the tenth consecutive year that I’m recording highlights of the prev
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ious year. That’s quite a milestone. At the end of August, I will have ten full years of blog posts. A decade of blogging…
Dec 2012
PHP Advent Renamed to Web Advent
This is just a quick post to explain why Sean and I decided to rename PHP Advent to Web Advent. If you're a PHP developer, you might suddenly feel left out or think we've moved on.
We're just adjusting the …
Nov 2012
Election Coverage
More and more people rely on the Internet rather than broadcast television for coverage of events like the election, but it still feels like we're in an awkward transition period. Here are the links for live e…
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