Opera Wand security issue AKA how to get passwords saved in the Wand which you don’t remember

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Opera does, as well as a great amount of other browser, have support for storing login-credentials, making it easy for the users to just click the Wand, or Command+Enter (mac) or ctrl+Enter (Windows) to have the browser autmaticly fill the fields and submit the form. But there are simple ways to extract the passwords.

URLs should express output-format, not source-format

Posted in Tip of the day, User-experience, Webdevelopment | 5 Comments

I’m the kind of guy who always tries to optimize my ways, especially when it comes programming. Over the last years I’ve worked on/against a multitude of CMS, frameworks and API’s, and quite often make some thoughts how things could be better, easier and more intuitive.

One of these things are regarding how to format a URL.

Adventures in Opera Unite

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Opera recently released Opera Unite claiming to reinvenet the web. I have used Opera Unite the latest week, and been playing around developing for it just as long. Heres what I think about it and have learned so far.

My favourite guitarists

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As anyone who barely know me knows, I’m very passionate regarding music, and even more when it comes to guitars – which for me is the instrument which the best allows a single player to express himself. So this post goes out to generally all musicians and music-lovers out there, and specifically to all of you guitar players – no matter if you’re pro, semi-pro, wannabe, nachspiel-hero or a complete newbie just eager to learn how to play. I will also, as well, tell you short about some of my favourite guitarists – I could go on forever :) :

Tip of the day: A good old SSH-timesaver

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Combining SSH-aliases with public key authentication, and then I reduced the amount of typing by about 34 chars (from 41 to 7) for each time I connect to one of my usual SSH-servers.

In a day that’ll probably save enough time to go and get me a nice cold beer. Mmm! Ah, those little things :)