Rants on code, security, randomness and games
As the first entry to the list of my PHP-related WTFs, I present:
The whitespace of death
This one has taken me almost a full hour to sort out. There may be some good features to PHP, yet this one I don’t think is even one. It should be considered a bug. As my experience has grown in reporting bugs myself or trying to report a bug, I reconsidered and chose not to report it as a “bug”.
My first release of a project is yasco. yasco (yet another source code obfuscator) is a medium-weight Javascript source code obfuscator written in Perl.
yasco has been made available on Google Code. Details on the project’s page.
When browsing Stackoverflow I often notice users asking questions somehow involving the use of HTTP_HOST. I nonchalantly hint on its vulnerable nature and fail to produce a hint on an article explaining why. Which is why I decided to take matters into my own hands.