Notes from the field

A colleague at my day job poked around on the Daily Parker, not for the content, but for the software. I now have two more Jira cases.

First, he uncovered a bug in how the app handles the + character in URLs, so that entering a direct link to a tag works fine if you click on the tag, but not if you enter the link itself (https://www.thedailyparker.com/Tags/How+this+works). The problem is in the encoding of spaces; this URL works fine: https://www.thedailyparker.com/Tags/How%20this%20works. This is now Jira case JOUR-444.

He also suggested that he's not really interested in politics, but he does like the technical contents of the blog. This implies a feature where a user can exclude posts that contain a specific tag, rather than find all the posts with that tag. Not sure how to implement it yet, but it's now Jira case JOUR-445.

Also floating around the software discussions at work was a really well-done demo of the most important security bugs in a lot of .NET applications. I'll be sure to check that out when I have free time again in about a week and a half.