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I love everything IT and enjoy research and solving problems. Although relatively new to internet IT, I do have 20 years of ancient commercial experience. I started work (pre PC and rise of Unix) on an IBM 370 mainframe where programs were read from punch cards and you had to calculate your file locations on disk. My work in IT also included 10 years as a Computer Auditor.
Web-site Security: blocking user agents, requests & query strings
Your first line of defence in preventing common vulnerability scans, directory traversal, and code injection attacks. A must read, if your web-site is hosted on either Apache (Linux) or IIS (Microsoft) servers.
WordPress Child Themes: 4 ways to avoid inefficient CSS import
Google and Yahoo advise against using “CSS @import”. However; tutorials on creating Wordpress Child Themes (including the Wordpress Codex) invariably use the “@import rule” in the child stylesheet .
Find out how to avoid CSS import ….
WordPress Security: why you should NOT require commenters to register.
Last month there were reports that a cyber-criminal gang had infected 30,000 Wordpress blogs to market “anti-virus” software. Wordpress is a popular target; keep your version and plugins up to date; and don’t expose your site to unnecessary risks.
If you require users to register before posting comments, for no other purpose than as part of your spam prevention strategy, then think again: …………
WordPress: the fast way to add your own CSS on top of a theme
Index: Introduction. Just show me how to do it. Plugin verses Child Theme – pros & cons. Inspiration. Skeleton plugin code.
Blocking hackers and spammers from your site
This article is about one of your first lines of defence – blocking unwanted visitors/bots from your site, by IP location. Part 2 will look at blocking by User Agent.
Travel Related Posts moved to a new blog
The address of this blog is not very “travelly” so I’ve decided to move Travel related posts to blog.travelchimps.com. Some links for posts about the travel widget, have been retained, but will open as pages on the new travel blog.
In future this site (wptest.means.us.com) will be used for posts on web-site development and IT issues.
New Travel App for Facebook Users
This blog has been split in two. Clicking to view, will redirect you to this post on the new travel blog.
Announcing apps.facebook.com/travel-info/. I like to think of it as the swiss army knife of Travel Apps. From travel and health advice by country, to weather and WIFI location by town; it provides the tools you need to research and plan your trip.
The App includes the following tools:
Next projects:
I considering restarting two old projects of mine written in Visual Studio Express for windows machines, both work but need ”tarting up” for issue as freeware. Custom A0/A1 size Year Planner: Specify any starting month, and year; and it will generate an Excel Spreadsheet containg the A0/A1 wall planner for you to print off or further customise as [...]