Just like the state employee salaries I scraped and posted last week, today I’ve posted the local governments in the Midlands area version.This is also a web scraping from the Local Salaries database made available thanks to The State newspaper.The government agencies included are:Counties: Kershaw, Lexington, RichlandLibraries: Richland CountyMunicipalities: Batesburg-Leesville, Blythewood, Camden, Cayce, Columbia, Forest … Continue reading →
New Open Data Set for South Carolina Employee Salaries
Each year The State newspaper submits FOIA requests to all state agencies and compiles a database containing salaries of all employees making at least $50,000. This data is then made freely available through a useable but fairly crappy little web interface provided by Caspio.If you know a particular employee’s name, simply want to see who … Continue reading →
The Top 500 Worst Passwords and Their Hashes
You shouldn’t use raw MD5 or SHA1 password hashes for storing authentication info, you should absolutely always use a randomized salt (bonus points for using something like Blowfish or PBKDF2 with a high number of iterations).I was playing with the BozoCrack utility, which mines Google for MD5 hashes, and found a list of the Top … Continue reading →
Enabling PHP Write Access on IIS
Unfortunately at work I’m stuck hosting PHP on various versions of Windows with IIS. For the most part things do just run (though I yearn for a nice Nginx + PHP-FPM setup that has decent URL rewriting), but figuring out what security settings to change so that PHP can write to a particular file or … Continue reading →
Validating File Uploads in Kohana 3.2
I don’t often have to deal with file uploads, but this morning I had to include one on a form I was developing for a project at work. I know Kohana has a decent Validation class and even provides an Upload helper for actually moving the file into place, but the examples were all spotty … Continue reading →
