Re: [OT]Silly weekend LC poll

2018-08-26 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
I’ll just switch to using my nose. :-) Kee Nethery > On Aug 25, 2018, at 10:06 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I swear one of these days someone is going to sew your fingers shut. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software |

Re: [OT]Silly weekend LC poll

2018-08-25 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
For me both are pronounced the way they would be as a full word except only the first syllable is pronounced. > CHAR: Rhymes with "care" > LOC: Rhymes with "smoke" Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: A poor man's app updater

2018-08-04 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
For sure don’t try to write updates to Applications on macOS, that requires permissions. Far better to treat them as app data and store in same place preferences get stored. Kee Nethery > On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:29 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > wrote: > > So, to store and access LC

Re: 64 bit LC

2018-07-20 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
On Jul 20, 2018, at 7:39 PM, Jerry Jensen via wrote: > > Just whip out your HP-35. It gets right answers! > .Jerry Long ago I sat on a bus at a conference next to the product manager for the HP-35. He said that they ran out of a part that was no longer made and had to re-design the board to

Re: Why you should sanitize input data

2018-07-16 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
We had a system interface between a public web server and a SQL database that ran pre-formed SQL commands. The table was specified, the variables were typed, the output was processed by XSLT, etc. The public server called a function that included the variables and got back whatever the XSLT

Re: Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

2018-07-16 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
First you develop a business selling ebooks that does not utilize the AppStore. You sell online and the ebooks are useable on macOS, Windows, Android, web browser. Once that is fully functional, you add yet another reader, one for iOS. People who have already purchased content via some other

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

2018-06-28 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
On Jun 28, 2018, at 9:17 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: > Another question I have is the best way to process the input text to > eliminate injection type attacks. I have a series of functions that filter out everything but ... digitsOnly() <- deletes everything other than 0

Re: Best practise approach for artwork for iOS and Android?

2018-06-11 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
If you use the imagery you have, don’t distort it to fill the screen. That always looks bad. Add white space and/or crop but keep the proportions correct. If you run them through a smoothing filter to up the dpi, you will want to bit poke each image to restore sharp corners that should not have

Re: worth it's salt in security

2018-06-06 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
Yes, My description was about hashing. If your main concern is encrypting …. not something I know. sorry. Kee > On Jun 6, 2018, at 7:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Brian Milby wrote: > > From the dictionary: > > > > The password and salt value are combined and scrambled

worth it's salt in security

2018-06-06 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
There is a bunch of basic info on the use of a salt on the web. The wikipedia article is a good start. It depends upon where and how you are using it. Mostly they discuss using a salt with a hash function. They recommend a long salt. They recommend storing the salt with the hashed password.

Re: UTF8 on LC server

2018-05-31 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
I’m assuming you are using “unicode” (aka UTF-16) and not UTF8 to do all your transforming of the data? Kee > On May 31, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Tim Selander via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks, Kee. > > Actually, I had found the reference to codepoint in the dictionary and tried > it. But it

Re: UTF8 on LC server

2018-05-31 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
> On May 31, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Tim Selander via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks, Warren. > > Yes, I've got that header set up, and UTF8 is working fine, pages look great. > But LC server is not handling character chunking in variables the same way as > LC desktop. In desktop, I can say

macOS and iOS sandbox permissions

2018-05-30 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
I’m looking for a list of sandbox permissions needed for various functions to actually work when the app is deployed by an Apple AppStore. I know about these since I use them in my macOS app: com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write com.apple.security.network.client What sandbox

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