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Snoopy PHP Webclient Security

10/26/2005 – 5:30 pm

There is a security advisory out regarding a Snoopy PHP Webclient vulnerability. Since WordPress uses Snoopy internally, we immediately double-checked to be sure that WP isn’t affected. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Security, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, PHP, plugin, RSS, WordPress | Comments (3)

Ajaxian multi-file uploads

9/27/2005 – 12:36 pm

Over on StickBlog, there’s a nice little demo of using AJAX to provide a nice, clean interface for uploading multiple files in a web form. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ajax, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Web | Comments (6)

Tivo

9/8/2005 – 4:51 pm

Tivo Series2 40GB DVR — $50 after rebate!

A couple of days ago, I read about a $150 rebate from Tivo. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Electronics, Entertainment, Hardware, Tech | Also tagged DVR, Television, Tivo | Comments (14)

Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time

7/25/2005 – 5:20 pm

Oh, dear Lord. Somebody please kill this weed before it grows: Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time

House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by one week to the first Sunday in November.

I. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in News, Politics | Also tagged Politics, Stupid | Comments (16)

FeedLounge wants browser developers

7/14/2005 – 4:13 pm

The FeedLounge team is looking for some browser developers to help with testing. This is to help distinguish better between bugs that may be in the FeedLounge application or in the browser itself. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, Tech | Also tagged FeedLounge, RSS, Web | Comments (1)

HeadMeta Update

7/14/2005 – 11:35 am

Prompted by some recent comments, I have made a minor update to my HeadMeta Plugin. There are now links to the color-coded PHP source, a plaintext version, a .ZIP file, and a .tar.gz tarball.

The new version adds automatic generation of a standard <meta/> tag for posts which have a custom ‘keyword’ or ‘keywords’ field. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Metadata, PHP, plugin, WordPress | Comments (7)

Now playing…

7/7/2005 – 9:49 am

About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Music, Tech | Also tagged Amazon, Commerce, iTunes, Media, MP3, PHP, plugin, this-site, Web | Comments (14)

Map Service APIs

7/1/2005 – 9:08 am

Both Google and Yahoo! have announced APIs for their mapping services. I’ve already gotten a developer key for the Google service. But it doesn’t support address searches, only lat/lon coordinates. So I’m thinking about applying for a Yahoo! key, using their service for geocoding (translating from street addresses to coordinates), then using Google’s mapping interface with all of its Ajaxy goodness.

I don’t know what I plan to actually do with this stuff, or when I’d find time to do it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Tech | Also tagged Ajax, API, Geocoding, Geography, Google, yahoo | Comments (11)

Feedlounge web-based aggregator

6/10/2005 – 2:12 pm

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Software | Also tagged Aggregators, Ajax, CSS, Feeds, Folksonomies, Perl, PHP, RSS, Tags, Web | Comments (18)

Zend Core for IBM

6/8/2005 – 9:46 am

Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. [...]