Beyond the general danger of revealing application logic to potential attackers, there are specific mistakes that programmers make when writing client-side code that can open their applications to attack. By Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan. 0324 Credit:Transparency in Ajax Applications – Part 2

Forms are how your users talk to your scripts. To get the most out of PHP, you must master forms. While PHP makes it easy to access form data, you need to take security measures since you cannot trust the data supplied by an HTML form. By William Steinmetz with Brian Ward. 0331 See original [...]

ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of ways to customize the style of pages and controls in your Web application. This week we examine the various properties of Web server controls, how to use CSS with ASP.NET and how to work with themes, master pages and user controls. By Randy Connolly. 0407 View original post here: [...]

This week we’ll look at an example that demonstrates the dynamic selection of themes. The page contains no appearance markup, only structured content. All formatting is contained in the theme skins and CSS files. By Randy Connolly. 0414 See the original post: Customizing and Managing Your Site’s Appearance – Part 2

When a page that uses a master page (i.e. a content page) is requested, ASP.NET merges the content page and master page together (assuming both have been compiled) by inserting the master page’s content at the beginning of the content page’s control tree. This means that the master page content is actually a control added [...]