user afoken <h3>About me:</h3> <ul> <li>I'm a graduate engineer (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)), developing web-based perl applications on Linux and Windows servers since 1999.</li> <li>I wrote the <a href="http://alexander-foken.de/downloads.html">initial Unicode-Patch</a> for DBD::ODBC, which was included in [mod://DBD::ODBC] 1.14 and improved since then.</li> <li>I'm too lazy to write more about me ...</li> </ul> <hr> <h3>Useful Postings</h3> <ul> <li>Passing arguments to programs on Unix and Windows: [id://847959]</li> <li>Useless encryption of interpreted languages: [id://848609], [id://767084]</li> <li>Safe image upload: [id://779315]</li> <li>Input validation, protecting foreign PCs: [id://798237]</li> <li>Signals on Windows: [id://794982] and [id://815548]</li> <li>DBI and placeholders: [id://839078], [id://811732], [id://930061]</li> <li>True and false constants: [id://840850]</li> <li>Clean code: [id://824490]</li> <li>Learning the rules: [id://783528]</li> <li>Storing sensitive information: [id://777251]</li> <li>SQL Server single active statement: [id://762499]</li> <li>Secure access to Unix servers: [id://813080]</li> <li>Optimizing servers: [id://777260]</li> <li>Oracle Environment: [id://848077]</li> <li>Windows and <c>stat()</c>: [id://784146]</li> <li>Insecure code in config files: [id://770607]</li> <li>Find the name of a variable: [id://807126]</li> <li>fork(), exec(), signals: [id://849143]</li> <li>Distributing Perl apps on Windows: [id://816868]</li> <li>MS/OO Office file formats: [id://774529], [id://779241]</li> <li>DBI and Unicode: [id://772361]</li> <li>HTTP Status Codes: [id://830590]</li> <li>Unicode transition problems: [id://808627]</li> <li>Avoiding file storage in web environments: [id://843857]</li> <li>Long Windows Paths: [id://855600]</li> <li>Don't use soundex: [id://804264]</li> <li>Optimizing code: [id://873828], [id://862104], [id://850428]</li> <li>Start a program without waiting on Windows: [id://938771]</li> <li>The <c>map</c> trap: [id://954780]</li> <li>mod_perl vs. FastCGI: [id://985806]</li> </ul> <h3>Broken Code</h3> <ul> <li>[id://844411]</li> <li>[id://814095]</li> <li>[id://796887]</li> <li>[id://770613]</li> <li>[id://873817] (well, not actually broken code, but [mod://Exporter]'s documentation needs some patches)</li> </ul> <h3>Opinion</h3> <ul> <li>Learning learning: [id://776437]</li> <li>IMAPdir: [id://780043]</li> <li>daemontools: [id://841182], [id://838124], [id://799828]</li> <li>PostgreSQL: [id://831776], [id://790591], [id://800971]</li> <li><c>strict</c> on by default: [id://819702]</li> <li>&quot;Write code for me&quot;: [id://896725]</li> </ul> <hr> <h3>Bookmarks</h3> <ul> <li>[http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/|Problems with arbitary shell behaviour] </ul> 2013-05-14 13:38:14 8022 747202 876024 890 Hamburg, Germany Europe/Rome 120 on