Wordpress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit

27 Mar 2008 – 10:24
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (1)

If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it’s a damn shame that this feed isn’t included in the wordpress planet that’s syndicated across everyone’s dashboard. Security is far more important than wordcamp.
I’m only bringing this [...]

Sarah Marshall is evil

25 Mar 2008 – 7:09
By adam | Also posted in soapboxing | Comments (0)

Chicago’s been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you’ll land on the site for the trailer:

The most shocking thing is that they’re not kidding: they’re actually validating against your driver’s license or something close to it. For sites that don’t [...]

Buckshot Ep. 9: Themes

18 Feb 2008 – 9:26
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (5)

Disconnected 1.3 is out. It includes support for WordPress 2.3’s native tagging, and preliminary support for WordPress 2.5’s get_avatar() function. I know I said I’d never support gravatars1, but since they’re going native in 2.5, there’s no point in fighting anymore. At least once 2.5 is released, I can write a [...]

The Apple Way

14 Feb 2008 – 8:45
By adam | Comments (4)

Since buying a laptop, I’ve had a vague uneasiness about my recently departed RAID 5 setup. My old desktop is now my development server, and I have a portable hard drive I’ve been using to store all the music that was once on my desktop. It also serves as my backup drive (unlike [...]

Adding Gravatars to Posts

6 Feb 2008 – 5:32
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (5)

With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it’s built for wordpress.com, so i thought I’d [...]