Warped Tour 2013
Last Sept. I promised a certain 15 year old girl that if she managed all A’s and B’s she could basically name her reward. Warped Tour Tickets were it…so I got to go. All in…
Defending Against a WordPress Brute Force Attack
Security experts are warning about a large botnet attacking WordPress sites using brute force attempts to break passwords. It is important to note that WordPress is not insecure. It is, however, a big target with…
WordPress 3.6 Coming – But I Really Want Workflow
We’ve got another fairly interesting release from WordPress on the way – 3.6. From Mark Jaquith’s post on features: Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions…
Migration from Drupal to WordPress
I’ve been working on migrating a fairly large site from Drupal to WordPress (actually WP is just a middle ground, it’s moving from there to another platform) and noticed a lack of decent information about…
Again with the “WordPress Isn’t Secure” Meme
As I was going about my morning reading, I came across an article with this dire headline: “The Perils of Using WordPress as a Hotel Website Content Management System.” Of course, being a professional who…
Veteran’s Day
Don’t forget our cherished Veterans to whom we all owe a great debt which can never be paid in full [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQnnZJ68Xo[/youtube]
Death of Journalism – In the end, it was us all along
In the end, it wasn’t the Internet, or televsion or even bad management that killed journalism; we did it to ourselves. When I was in college, we held up the Bob Woodwards of the world…
Blue Ice – the new Techno-thriller by Mark N. Cahill
26 years in the making…I finally got the proof copy of my novel, Blue Ice. It’s true – I started writing it, and in fact, most of the first chapter remains from 1986, when I…
Friday Music Video: In Honor of the Political Conventions…King Crimson
Yeah…this about sums it up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQhLcKyGs8[/youtube]
Oracle moves emperil web development with Mysql
Often the biggest threats come not from without, but from within. There’s a big issue looming for web and mobile developers, and if it happens, it will affect virtually everyone that uses the web. The…