I was evaluating an issue with an older Module::Build when I fell over this in the Changes file of Module::Build: 0.30 – Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008 – First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, Phelps won a lot of gold, a [...]

I got a mail forwarded from my current manager. A security scan in relation to our PCI certification had flagged a functionality as insecure, on a medium level. The scanning tool was able to post URI encoded strings, which could be evaluated as working Javascript. This would enable a malicious user to manipulate with the [...]

I have had a problem for quite sometime with some code. We refer to the code as the poor mans configuration management system. (the code snippets below have been shortened to not reflect the name space of the client in question). All in all it is a CPAN like distribution of files. Configuration_DEV.pm Configuration_TEST.pm Configuration_PROD.pm [...]