Frank Goossens: wordpress.org plugin repo: ratings changed
Yesterday the average rating of all plugins on the wordpress.org repository changed; ratings that were not linked to a review, were removed. That means that ratings dating from before approximately...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Dear non-Belgian web developer,
Localization in the web context is hard, I know. To make things easier, it may seem like a good idea to use GeoIP to detect what country an IP is coming from and default your localization based on...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Up And Close With PHP 7’s New RFCs
The post Up And Close With PHP 7’s New RFCs appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you're following the development of PHP 7, you'll notice a lot of new RFCs (and some old ones that have been revived) are...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: The Evil CVE: CVE-666-666 – “Report Not Read”
I had an interesting discussion with a friend this morning. He explained that, when he is conducting a pentest, he does not hesitate to add sometimes in his report a specific finding regarding the lack...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: More goodness in wordpress.org plugin repo updates
Seems like the wordpress.org plugin pages, after recent improvements to the ratings-logic, now got an even more important update. They now use “active installations” as most important metric (as has...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: La fin de la publicité chez Apple ?
À moins de vivre sur une autre planète, vous ne pouvez avoir manqué l’annonce faite par Tim Cook lors de la dernière keynote d’Apple. Le moins que l’on puisse dire c’est qu’Apple s’y entend pour créer...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: How much money to raise for your startup? [Flowchart]
From time to time, people ask me how much money to raise for their startup. I've heard other people answer that question from "never raise money" to "as little as you need" to "as much as you can".The...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: NBD 3.9
I just released NBD 3.9When generating the changelog, I noticed that 3.8 happened two weeks shy of a year ago, which is far too long. As a result, the new release has many new features:AF_UNIX...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Quick tip; disabling WordPress author pages
I helped build a WordPress-site for a not-for-profit and they asked me to disable the author pages. Although I’m sure there are multiple plugin-based solutions, I ended up simply adding an author.php...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Comment pourrait-il en être autrement ?
Les méandres de la psychologie humaine font que, du cyclisme à la politique, on peut être un honnête tricheur, un menteur qui dit la vérité et un corrompu de bonne foi. Et si ce n’était pas les hommes...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: phpMoAdmin 0-day Nmap Script
An 0-day vulnerability has been posted on Full-Disclosure this morning. It affects the MongoDB GUI phpMoAdmin. The GUI is similar to the well-known phpMyAdmin and allows the DB administrator to perform...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host] Now Available
As monolithic stacks give way to applications comprised of microservices, a container-based architecture can help enterprises to more fully realize the benefits of this more nimble, composable...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Radiohead’s acoustic Subterranean...
Heard this on KCRW a couple of days ago and have it playing on repeat now; Radiohead with a beautiful acoustic version of “Subterranean Homesick Alien”.Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Bundling Software Installs With Adware
The post Bundling Software Installs With Adware appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This is obviously what users want.For several years, Oracle has been bundling the Ask toolbar with its Java software for...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Brussels] Red Hat JBoss Fuse Free hands-on lab on March 12...
Red Hat JBoss Middleware Hands-On Labs, join us for a free hands-on lab at one of our Benelux locations Have you ever wondered how to get started with the Red Hat JBoss Middleware products? Are you...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Red Hat][Docker] Check your Dockerfile syntax
Dockerfile toolType or paste your Dockerfile into the editor, or load it intohttps://access.redhat.com/labs/linterfordockerfile/#/ and check if you syntax is correct. Kind RegardsFrederic
View ArticleJoram Barrez: Getting started with Activiti and Spring Boot published on The...
My article “Getting started with Activiti and Spring Boot” has been published today on The Spring Blog: https://spring.io/blog/2015/03/08/getting-started-with-activiti-and-spring-boot It fills me with...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Drupal engine_ssid_ And engine_ssl_ cookies: You’ve Been Hacked
The post Drupal engine_ssid_ And engine_ssl_ cookies: You’ve Been Hacked appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you're seeing the cookies engine_ssid_ and engine_ssl_ being set in your Drupal site, chances...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Virtual Reality As The Next Step After Reponsive Webdesign?
The post Virtual Reality As The Next Step After Reponsive Webdesign? appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Mozilla has a impressive demosite running at MozVR.com.Over the last few years, the web has evolved...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: QuirksMode: “The problem with Angular”
I’ve previously already expressed my doubts about the how well-suited AngularJS is for mobile web development (in Dutch, though, as I was discussing the merits of the mobile news-site of the Flemish...
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