scoop - command line installerIf you are familiar with Linux, you certainly came across the various software installers like apt or yum. They allow you to effortlessly install, update and remove applications, games, libraries and other software, with very short and concise comman...Mar 5, 2021 路 3 min readschleinzer.info
Jumpstart a fresh Windows installationAmong the first things you do sitting in front of a fresh Windows installation is to install your favorite go-to software. This normally involves starting Internet Explorer (to install your browser of choice 馃槈), and finding all the home pages of the...Mar 3, 2021 路 2 min readschleinzer.info
What's wrong with md5($_GET['password'])?Storing your users' passwords securely is critical. But still, you can find code like $hash=md5($_GET['password']) in many code bases. So, what's wrong about it? Using md5 to hash passwords While it's good to see use of a hash in the code - instead o...Mar 2, 2021 路 4 min readschleinzer.info
Avoid guessable IDsWhen developing a web application, you often have to store user-generated entities such as user profiles, photos, posts and videos. Chances are you store them in a database, using an integer ID, generated by a sequence. So, for example, each newly po...Mar 2, 2021 路 3 min readschleinzer.info