Request for tutorial

Is there anyway we can talk our local hacker (notepad) into writing a tutorial on security? Something that shows the various attacks as well as viable,simple ways of thwarting them?

hm.. well, security is an awfully broad topic but, i could probably come up with something.

maybe you could make it a multi part series... injection, mail form exploits, login, protecting includes, etc. etc.

heck - while we're at it... maybe a tutorial on good basic coding practices. commenting, error handling, DB access credentials, initiating variables, error reporting set to E_ALL... Hmm - maybe I'll write something on that. What ya think? Anything else you would want to see in something like that?

And I like the multipart idea for the security tutorial. But I understand if that is too much.

i've come up with (what i believe to be) a pretty good flowchart for a security conscious developer. now, i just need to fill in the gaps... give me a while though; i've got several other projects i'm juggling

i like the best practices idea too. maybe add code-formatting to your list

I'd add something on variable naming, and coming up with a convention and decently named variables too (for lig's)

Ok - my tutorial has been sent to bluepheonix for review and eventual publication. How about yours notepad? ;)

i'm sorry i've been distracted, but i will finish it.

here it is - http://codewalkers.com/tutorials/94/1.html Please do me the favor of looking it over (I already know about the shiflett blog problem) and tell me what you think. Hope I covered everything.

How's that tutorial coming along, notepad? I saw your notes and it was looking pretty good...

-Tim

meh.. for one reason or another it got pushed to the back of my list. i'm sorry. i will try to work on it this weekend. thanks for the nudge.

okay, this tutorial is basically done, has already been submitted, and is being tech-edited. should hopefully see it before the end of the month.

only took me half a year

/me claps and can't wait to read it.