Switched to the Thematic WordPress theme. Added a couple touches, but definitely not finished. Want to change up the link (visited, hover) colors, etc. I’m more of a blue than red, I think.

Pandora is awesome, but it keeps drifting way-away from the styles it starts with when I set up a station. I try to “thumb-up” good songs, but it still seems to drift (far) after awhile. Am I doing something wrong? What gives?

Back to work.

Been so busy! Had a great trip to TX to spend a weekend with some of the greatest people. Now spending some time trying to get this “blog”, “web presence”, whatever looking decent.

Gave up GoDaddy for DreamHost. (that’s a referral link).  During the move, a lot of files may have been misplaced or even lost, links to certain pages may be dead, etc. I also haven’t updated the theme yet, so it’s back to WordPress default for a bit.

I saw the Signed Cookies in Django Middleware and looked around to see if something like that had been done in PHP. I didn’t see anything immediately – perhaps some of the frameworks have it buried in their docs somewhere?

So I put together a small class that handles cookie signing, and verification, for PHP.

It’s nothing very serious, and could probably be vastly improved – but I like going the route of “absolutely minimal”, so that you could quickly grab the concepts and put them to practice in whatever code-base you’re working on.

UPDATE:
In the time since writing this, I seem to have misplaced the specific portion of code that I had laying around. In the mean time, I highly suggest checking out this answer about signed cookies at StackOverflow, which should cover all of the basics to get you started, should you choose to take that route.