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Another complication with encrypting everything is images - if users can post images (like they can in questions and answers on StackExchange sites) then you run into browsers informing people that some elements on the page haven't been transmitted securely.
Fixing this is possible, but it means that you can just turn on HTTPS and be done. Here's a post from GitHub: Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets
Commented Feb 24, 2012 on Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? at Coding Horror
Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar. It's difficult to fix without making ma...
Having members who want to participate in discussions about the site itself is amazing and rewarding.
I agree with the items on this list but I'd include a 6th that goes something like this: Your meta users are (likely) mostly "power users". Don't focus on the meta discussion so much that you forget about the community members that you aren't hearing from.
Commented Feb 3, 2012 on Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do at Coding Horror
Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do
You know how interviewers love asking about your greatest weakness, or the biggest mistake you've ever made? These questions may sound formulaic, maybe even borderline cliche, but be careful when you answer: they are more important than they seem. So when people ask me what our biggest mistake...
I've always been a huge fan of HAML and I've also been using SASS because I really like the nesting (easier to read, less repetition, more pressure to write "good" CSS)
I had an "aha!" moment recently when I read about how Geoffrey at Peepcode uses the other SASS features. It's not just about variables for colors and arithmetic.
http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/about-this-blog#css
Commented Apr 30, 2010 on What's Wrong With CSS at Coding Horror
What's Wrong With CSS
We're currently in the midst of a CSS Zen Garden type excerise on our family of Q&A websites, which I affectionately refer to as "the Trilogy": Server Fault Super User Stack Overflow Meta Stack Overflow (In case you were wondering, yes, meta is the Star Wars Holiday Special.) These sites a...
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