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Account Deletions

I had to recently re-install WordPress. During the process, I didn’t (forgot to) reinstall the registration plugin that helped prevent bots from auto-creating accounts. This resulted in a large number of illegitimate accounts being created. I’ve purged all of these … Continue reading

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Nessus Scans FTW

Isn’t this the most worthless result from a vulnerability scan: PHP Unspecified Vulnerability (Protocol: tcp Port: 80) DESCRIPTION An unspecified vulnerability has been discovered in PHP with Unknown impact and attack vectors. All versions before 5.2.11, and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 … Continue reading

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PHP Developers Beware – PHPUnit isn’t gonna be on Subversion for Much Longer

Sebastian Bergmann, lead developer of the PHPUnit testing framework, has decided to switch PHPUnit from subversion to Git. I wouldn’t normally have a problem with this, especially if he were to follow all of the other mainstream projects that choose … Continue reading

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Why I Hate RedHat

[root@sheerjira ~]# rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm package rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386 is already installed [root@sheerjira ~]# rpm -e rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm error: package rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed ‘Nuff said.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

I cannot believe i’ve never seen the first Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Then again, it first aired in 1987, which would have made me about 3. I have to say, the later years were so much better!! the … Continue reading

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I Hate PHP Sometimes

As one of the first few languages I learned, PHP has a special place in my heart. I am able to do a lot with the language. But sometimes, I wish that the core development team would actually make it … Continue reading

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Update Orphaned MSSQL Users

I’ve been moving the databases at work from one Microsoft SQL 2005 server to another SQL 2005 Server. When the databases grant security to non-domain users, they have a tendency to not be attached / accessible on the new server. … Continue reading

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Flexible and Pragmatic Automated PHP Development

The last year or so I have dabbled in C# .Net development, which was quite a bit different from PHP development. The .Net Framework is absolutely huge, the capabilities are endless, and the tools to help me develop faster far … Continue reading

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Installing PDT in Eclipse Ganymede

For those Eclipse users who are PHP developers, getting the PDT Eclipse modules to install in a non-PDT distribution of Eclipse is extremely painstaking. This is compounded by the fact that x86_64 users don’t get a PDT distrib from http://www.zend.com/pdt/. … Continue reading

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Caching Problem

Howdy all, I made a post below relating to PHP, and the caching engine is not deleting the cache, so the post is showing up with < and > characters as literals, thus showing text boxes and other things that’s … Continue reading

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