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Vanderln / application.js
Last active December 17, 2015 08:19 — forked from dbc-challenges/lucky_ajax.md
$(document).ready(function () {
$('form').submit('click', function(event){
event.preventDefault();
var number = 1 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 6);
var num = {"value" : number};
var action = $(this).attr('action');
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Vanderln / zoo.js
Last active December 17, 2015 16:09 — forked from dbc-challenges/zoo.js
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// YOUR CODE: Create your Zoo "object literal" and Animal "constructor" and "prototypes" here.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function Animal(name, legs)
{
this.name = name;
this.legs = legs;
// this is a method that gets created every time a new Animal is created
// this.bar = function() {
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Vanderln / index.html
Last active December 17, 2015 16:29 — forked from dbc-challenges/index.html
DBC Phase 2 Practice Assessment Part 3
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/normalize/2.1.0/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600,700,800">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,900">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/3.0.2/css/font-awesome.min.css">
</head>
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Vanderln / lucky_ajax.md
Created June 4, 2013 20:27 — forked from dbc-challenges/lucky_ajax.md

Instructions:

  1. Download this application skeleton.
  2. Convert the app to use AJAX.
  3. Add any files you changed to your gist and submit your code.
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Vanderln / jquery_quiz.js
Last active December 18, 2015 07:49 — forked from dbc-challenges/jquery_quiz.js
/*1. Use basic selectors (id, class, element) to choose an element on the page.
Use the .css() method to alter at least two CSS properties of this element. */
$('a').css('font-size', '30px')
$('div').css({'background-color' : 'skyblue'});
$('.dropdown-menu').css({'color' : 'skyblue', 'background-color' : 'yellow'});
/*2. Use basic selectors and the find() method to select an image on the page
and change it with another image of your choice. */
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Vanderln / index.html
Last active December 18, 2015 11:19 — forked from dbc-challenges/index.html
DBC Phase 2 Practice Assessment Part 3
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/normalize/2.1.0/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600,700,800">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,900">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/3.0.2/css/font-awesome.min.css">
</head>
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Vanderln / zoo.js
Last active December 18, 2015 11:19 — forked from dbc-challenges/zoo.js
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// YOUR CODE: Create your Zoo "object literal" and Animal "constructor" and "prototypes" here.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// DRIVER CODE: Do **NOT** change anything below this point. Your task is to implement code above to make this work.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Vanderln / web_security.md
Last active December 19, 2015 01:49

Web Security (should know for job interviews)

This post outlines three common web security vulnerabilities with specific examples in Rails. For a more complete list, I highly recommend the OWASP Rails security cheatsheet.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

A cross-site scripting attack is when malicious scripts are injected into a web site in order to compromise it.

For example, let's say we want to allow html tags such as <strong> in our blog comments, so we render raw output using the Rails method #html_safe: