A Day in Paradise

I played with Joost way back in January when it was still called “The Venice Project” and beta testers had to sign NDAs (although that didn’t stop a lot of them). Back then while the technology was great, due to the number of users the quality was mediocre.
I got into Joost again at Stella’s request, […]

I am finally back online on ALL my IM protocols, thanks to the newly branded pidgin client.
GAIM has always been a fantastic project, and I look forward to Pidgin following in its footsteps.
UPGRADE NOW!

CD Player region free hack.
The ultimate video conversion tool.
These two items have no connection, I’m just in the market for a good region-free dvd player that I can buy in the US so I won’t have a problem bringing the hundreds of region 2 dvds over. Any suggestions?

I don’t usually post on security issues, but this frightening enough to warrent as much attention as it can get.
Details on Stefan Esser’s blog.
What this means is that ANY site which hosts a PDF is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. So, follow Stefan’s instructions and disable the pdf plugin.

Now I can’t tell you what Project X is, because the NDA that you have to sign before being part of the initial wave of Project X beta testers includes a clause that says that you can’t disclose that the beta testing program exists.
However, it is awesome! Incredibly disruptive… blows huge holes in my youTube […]

A flurry of PHP updates this week… on the heels of PHP5.2 we have ezPublish 3.9 and Zend Framework 0.60 and ezcomponents. While I have updated the PHP version on the server, I’m holding out on ezPublish and ZF till the holiday weekends.
I released the 5th article on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series, this […]

… because they dive into it like this.

Image courtesy of an International PHP Magazine.

Maybe I’ll “upgrade” now… can’t stand the way FF2 works with tabs
<awormus> anyone know a way to put the tabs in ff2 back to how they worked in ff1.5?
<Akrabat> yes
<awormus> TELL ME
<Akrabat> I suppose I’d better look it up now
<awormus> I have FF2 on my laptop, but there is NO way I could […]

“We’re sorry the telephone that you are calling from is not in service at this time”
What does that mean? I’m using it aren’t I?

A nice tutorial on GIT explains the development of the program, and Linux’s history.
Torvalds began working on Git as an interim solution to replace BitKeeper, which had previously been the primary source code tool in use by Linux kernel developers worldwide. Some members of the open source community felt that the BitKeeper license was not […]

I put together a couple scripts to test out chorizo scanner during our PHP UG meeting tonight.
Now I’m not saying that I always write 100% secure scripts, but intentionally writing vulnerable scripts which demonstrate vulnerabilties which aren’t entirely stupidly obvious is REALLY difficult.
Anyway, we’re having a security talk by Tom Klingenberg followed by some examples […]

Somehow, between all the anti pasta and PHP revelry in Italy, OSS Blog managed to get an interview with Tobias Schlitt. The interview covers PHP, Open Source, Ajax and surrounding technologies.
I don’t think I need to say this, but I LOVE Free Software. Companies like eZsystems, MySQL, RedHat and many more, show there is business […]

We are in the development stage of a site at domain.com. To host this site we created an account in Cpanel for domain.com and started our testing. After a couple of days we get a report that email that is being sent from domain1.com is not reaching the recipients at domain.com.
After poking around for a […]

The last couple weeks I’ve had to work on a managed server which only has Cpanel access and the associated WebHost Manager. The people in #cpanel on efnet have been VERY helpful in getting me around some sticky configuration issues.
Putting 2 sites on one control panel
A client had a domain name which was registered and […]

I remember the WTF moment I had a couple years ago when Frozen Bubble was released. The game was nice but the awesome bit was the it was based on PERL, which was my programming language of choice at the time.
I had that moment again this morning when an email arrived in my mail box […]