Just like the state employee salaries I scraped and posted last week, today I’ve posted the local governments in the Midlands area version.
South Carolina Midlands Employee Salary Database
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New Open Data Set for South Carolina Employee Salaries
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Each year The State newspaper submits FOIA requests to all state agencies and compiles a database containing salaries of all employees making at least $50,000. This data is then made freely available through a useable but fairly crappy little web interface provided by Caspio.
The Top 500 Worst Passwords and Their Hashes
You shouldn’t use raw MD5 or SHA1 password hashes for storing authentication info, you should absolutely always use a randomized salt (bonus points for using something like Blowfish or PBKDF2 with a high number of iterations).
Enabling PHP Write Access on IIS
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Unfortunately at work I’m stuck hosting PHP on various versions of Windows with IIS. For the most part things do just run (though I yearn for a nice Nginx + PHP-FPM setup that has decent URL rewriting), but figuring out what security settings to change so that PHP can write to a particular file or directory has always been a problem.
Validating File Uploads in Kohana 3.2
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I don’t often have to deal with file uploads, but this morning I had to include one on a form I was developing for a project at work. I know Kohana has a decent Validation class and even provides an Upload helper for actually moving the file into place, but the examples were all spotty and / or confusing in different ways.