Happy Hacker Halloween!
Last year I wanted to be a “Hacker” and code up a solution to show near by access points and nearby phones. I failed. However, I did a good job […]
PHP
tableMaker: Open Source PHP MySQL CRUD GUI library (Updated!)
I have to admit, one of the utter joys of my job is that they encourage me to open source software I write at my day job. After looking high […]
MapTableMaker: An open source, simple-to-use, high resolution SVG map tool
After helping release MapTable, I knew I wanted to make it more accessible for non-programmer types. While my post about using MapTable in WordPress was a start at this, you […]
Detecting IPv6 with JS and PHP
A friend of mine wanted a way to know if visitors to her site were coming from an IPv6 address. To do this, you would run some PHP to output […]
How to test PHPs memory_limit setting
So, we all know that in PHP, you configure it with a php.ini file. And in there, you can set the amount of RAM a script can use with the […]
MultiPressDev
I’ve just released 1.0 of a github project that easily allows you to develop plugins across multiple versions of WordPress. It uses Vagrant to easily provision an Ubuntu Virtual Machine […]
All HTTPS all the time, With HSTS to boot
I’ve been brushing up on my web security best practices recently. OWASP is a great resource for this! One of their recommended best practices is to use HTTP Strict Transport […]
How to spam this blog
As a follow up to last week’s post (How to comment on this blog), this week I bring you the results of the no-captcha test. After much spam slipping through […]
How to comment on this blog
It seems that reCAPTCHA is a victim of its own success. Y’all know I’m a huge, huge fan. However, recently the spammers have started to submit comments, successfully getting past […]
404er Legit and WordPress community kudos
Remember way back when we posted 404er? Well, good news! We jumped through the hoops and now our plugin is officially on the WordPress site. Clearly the readme needs to […]