WordPress is one of the worlds biggest blogging platforms and can be easily extended with vulnerable add-ons to support a variety of functions – from CMS’s to stores and pretty much anything in between. Within some web applications, themes may contain variables that refer to dynamic elements while in others, like WordPress, insecure PHP files …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Internet Explorer for Mac the Easy Way: Run IE 7, IE8, & IE9 Free in a Virtual Machine
If you’re a Mac user that requires the usage of Internet Explorer under Mac OS X, you’ll find your choices are generally as follows: run IE on top of Mac OS X with Wine which can be slow and buggy, dual boot Windows and Mac OS X which is a nuisance because it requites rebooting, …
IE on Mac OS X
Until now, I never really bothered how my website looks in IE. After all, if you’re visiting my site using IE (a tiny 3%), chances are you are are simply not part of my target audience.
PHP: Crontab Class to Add, Edit and Remove Cron Jobs
Provided that your user account on the server has the privileges to access crontab thus can create or remove cron jobs, you can use this PHP class to integrate crontab in your application. I created it for many of my own projects that need crontab to do scheduled jobs. It’s pretty straightforward.
Benchmarking PHP GEttext
I created a simple web page to compare the performance of various localization methods for PHP. It only contains 3 localized strings and does not use advanced features of gettext (e.g. plurals). I wrote a version using the gettext PHP extension (“gettext Ext.”), one using PHP-gettext (“gettext PHP”, a gettext implementation written in pure PHP) …
Netbeans setup wamp xdebug
First, check that it isn’t actually working for you, and you don’t notice. I’ve done this…convinced it’s not working I wasted a chunk of time trying to get it to work, only to find that everything was OK.