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  • nav tag as "main content archives" wrapper in WordPress

    i currently do use the article tag for each individual part in the list, my question is more about the validity of using something like... nav#archives > ol > li > article my view is that the archives page is a large list of navigation li…
    Comment by macharborguy February 17 permalink
  • Wishful Thinking - The Un-Click-Through-able Z-Indexed Elements

    @joshuanhibbert: bad form for me not to thank you sooner. Ever since your reply i have been using this CSS property like mad. And now that Opera is moving to WebKit, I won't have to use the vendor-prefix hack to get it to work there.
    Comment by macharborguy February 16 permalink
  • Censor Password in Database?

    Yes, hashing is the proper way to do this. While an encrypted password may seem safe, it isn't. All a hacker would need to do is get a copy of the password fields and then run a brute force cracker on the data to figure out your encryption ke…
    Comment by macharborguy March 2012 permalink
  • Censor Password in Database?

    Is there a specific reason you want to store the passwords in a form that can be decrypted back to plain text? This can be a security risk. What would be best is to hash the password using one of the many cryptographic hashing algorithms, such as …
    Comment by macharborguy March 2012 permalink