One of the problems I’ve run into while writing up some of my little PHP web scripts is how to make them reasonably secure. Everybody talks about how code need to be made secure, but so far I’ve found it difficult to find actual examples or guides on just how to write secure code. Maybe it’s just the non-programmer in me that has a hard time with this.
So I was somewhat pleased to hear about the formation of the PHP Security Consortium. Hopefully this will become a good resource for people like me (as well as more experienced coders).
House pictures
Posted some pictures of the house in various stages of construction. The drywall is up now so the house innards are starting to look more like house innards.A little bit of paint, some floors and a few lights and it’ll be ready to move in!
Today we head over to the tile place and pick out some tile for the kitchen and bathrooms.
The Choosing
Met with the selling agent today to go over our choices for the house innards. Chose stuff like wall colours, cabinets, flooring, tile and carpets. It all went reasonably well, although a few things we want will depend on the cost. If it comes in over our budget, then we’ll have to eliminate some of the upgrades we asked for and go with the standard choices. We have things prioritized though, and nothing will be really hard to give up. Besides, we can always go back in a year or two and have things re-done the way we wanted.
After that it was a stop at the house to measure out a few areas. Drywall’s been put up so finishing shouldn’t be too much farther away.
A trip to Sears netted us a swanky new refrigerator and washer/dryer thanks to the wife’s parents. All within budget (barely) too.
Next thing on the list to deal with are some forms that need to be filled out by the Payroll folks, setting up an appointment with the appraiser guy, going to the tile place and the lighting place and getting some insurance quotes.
Somewhere in all that I need to do taxes too…
Spilling the financial beans
Applying for a mortgage loan involves a lot of rummaging and running around, as I’m sure anyone who’s been through the process knows very well.
We opted to do our mortgage through E-Loan. So far the people I’ve been speaking to have been very friendly, helpful and provide most everything that needs signing electronically. And there are forms up the wazoo. Of course the signing thing still needs to be done on the dead-tree version, which means faxing it back to them. We’re in the processing and approval stage now, so there’s been a lot of paperwork that needs to be printed and signed. Hopefully everything goes through smoothly.
Running the gauntlet
There’s so much construction going on around the hospital that some days I feel like I should be walking around wearing a hard hat and safety vest or something.
There’s construction on the ground work for the new hospital being built near the parkade I’m in, construction going on for new sewer lines up the block, construction for rerouting utility lines on the walk between the parkade and the hospital, construction for the new cancer center building next door, construction on the ground floor of the library, construction for a new parkade on the other side of the hospital. Construction here, construction there, construction everywhere! Some days it looks like there are more construction workers here than there are patients.
Everywhere you look there’s a piece of heavy machinery lumbering towards you, or a crane dangling several tonnes of precast concrete slab over your head, or those blue sticky pads for picking dirt and dust off your shoes. Hammering, drilling, banging and thumping here and there. It just never ends around here.