Production setup revisited
24 Aug 2007
A while ago I wrote about how to have a production setup on a shared host, an insightful comment from CraZyLeGs pointed out that the same idea could be extended (on either a shared of dedicated machine) to allow multiple applications to be installed on the same server, and have multiple parallel versions of cake installed as well. For some time, and in reality probably...
Generic capability-based security (CSRF prevention)
23 Aug 2007
Over time I have become more and more interested (concerned?) with the security aspects of web development, and lately I've been looking at defense tactics against CSRF type attacks. To put CSRF into layman speak using a typical example, its an exploitation of sites where the only means of checking whether or not to do something, is to check if the request came from a logged...
Debugging test cases
21 Aug 2007
Hurray it's the middle of summer and obviously like most people I am quite focused on testing code. What? You mean that isn't a typical summer activity :D?
I've written a few tests with the CakePHP test suite now and can safely say that after you have written your first one, it's very easy to write another. One thing that is a great help but not so clear how to do is how...