VAT and foreign websites
A lot of people reading this blog will be aware that the EU has a tax on non-essential items which, in the UK, is called Value-Added Tax, or VAT. The annoyance of VAT itself aside, it is a legal requirement for sites to support it when selling things for VAT-registered entities based in the EU. [...]
August 24, 2009
• Tags: apis, bad design, development, ebay, taxation, taxes, vat, websites • Posted in: Computers, Software • No Comments
Insecurity features
I’m surprised I haven’t written about this before, actually, since it’s something that really bugs me and I see it happening more and more.
The amount of sites out there which insist on checking that passwords match /^[a-zA-Z0-9]$/ and exclude all other characters astounds me. There’s no better way to make passwords easily crackable than limiting [...]
July 2, 2009
• Tags: bad code, bad programming, development, passwords, stupid policies • Posted in: Computers, Software • 4 Comments
