Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.SQL injection and remote file inclusion. Watch out!
About a year and a half ago, i started coding my CMS, Jasmine. It was a combination of experience on several CMS's like the nukes, e107, joomla and jupiter (which i was sad to see close a few months ago). I was (and maybe still am in a way) an inexperienced php coder...
HTTP Basic Authentication for hardcores or… masochists!
Here i am again... The tradition of the "hardcores or masochists" series keeps going on. Now, i am onto the simple authorization of the http. You must have used an .htaccess file before to protect some folder from the public. You must have also read the apache...
Data Mining for Netflix challenge – part 1
I had written an application for the Netflix challenge. Here's the report (sort of), it's split into 3 parts. This is my first blog entry, so sorry for the style. 0. The problem. The problem was announced by Netflix back in 2006. It concerns a challenge for creating...
Breach
The past few days, i've been reading about this movie called "Breach", released on 2007. The movie is about a true story. The biggest breach on espionage and security on the FBI. It is a very nice movie, that keeps the suspense until the last minutes. A few goofs here...
Desperados 2… Anything new??
About six years ago, i found this demo around called "Desperados: Wanted dead or alive". It is a strategy game, a point and click one. What you do, is you get a squad of people, Cooper and his friends and try to guide them around so you can complete a mission. It was...
Lilacs’ all over the place!
I have this Lilac tree outside my door and everytime i get out or come in the past few weeks i get this nice smell. It reminds me that Spring is here, Easter is around the corner and summer is peaking at us! It is a beautifull flower indeed with a very nice smell....
I got the .com again…
Well yesterday i thought, "what the heck". So i bought the stratosector.com back. It was the first domain i ever registered and i think it has some sentimental value to me. You can access the site through both the .net and .com, not that it makes any difference,...
HTTP response codes
I found this activity diagram, in this page, strolling around the internet and i found it very interesting. It shows what happens from the momment the server gets the request from the client and how he decides what response code to send to the client. You must have...
Nested Sets vs Adjucency Matrix
I have been using trees as structures to store data, such as categories in a forum. In most cases what happens is that you create a node, for instance a category, that may or may not have a parent. This is called an adjucency matrix, because what you do is, in each...
Flying my… Picooz!
This is addicting guys... First of all what is a picooz? Well it is an RC helicopter from Silverlit. The picooz's are series of rc helicopters. They are pretty small and light and they are addicting to fly. I have a desert king type of helicopter. It is almost 13cm...