Andrew Heins

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3 Posts found from April 2011


Security: GitHub and You

I love GitHub, but just realized a potential mistake that put me into a panic until I’d verified that I hadn’t fallen pray to it yet. Does your source code include passwords, keys, or other information in plain-text that you wouldn’t like anyone to see? Does your application include a web.config type file containing such [...]


Loading Dependencies Reliably in Javascript

I’ve been playing with Canvas recently and got to try out the excanvas library in order to extend 2d canvas functionality to IE. I can’t speak highly enough about excanvas by the way, try it out if you get the opportunity. Anyway, I found myself in a situation where I was loading excanvas in the [...]


The “Process”

While I’ve been working on the web for a long while now, my personal projects have really stepped to the forefront over the past couple of years. My “process” for getting work done has evolved over that time, but not exactly in the way I expected. “Process” If you’ve ever read someone like Rands, you’ll [...]