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CSS character escape sequences, more on the CSS3 selector syntax (STTS 3 Profile Specification) at W3C.

Posted on 7 Mar 2012 by | Leave a comment

FYI: The WordPress 3.3 XSS vulnerability has been addressed in a changeset on 30 Dec 2011, wordpress 3.3.1 has just been released. (3.3.1 changes/Announcement).

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Don’t tell nobody!: class IntegerstringArray IMPLEMENTS ArrayAccess

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Protocol of some PHP Memory Stretching Fun

Posted on 9 Jun 2011 by

The know your language department was having a day out with the gang from the know your runtime department. The topic of today was to play with the PHP memory limit, let’s grab the laptop’s shell: $ php -d memory_limit=1g … Continue reading →

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Mozilla fails where it does best

Posted on 15 May 2011 by

Something must have passed QC on the mozilla web team that shouldn’t. Ever tried to download Mozilla Firefox from their homepage with a opera browser that has javascript disabled? You don’t get even a statical link offered that could lead … Continue reading →

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List of PHPMD Rulesets

Posted on 12 May 2011 by

As I only use PHPMD from time to time only I always need to lookup the default ruleset names from the filesystem. As google is faster than a search on the harddrive, here they are: codesize design naming unusedcode I … Continue reading →

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Mjam! git cherry-pick

Posted on 7 May 2011 by

Each day you didn’t know about how to use git-cherry-pick is half a developer’s day. Kind of my feeling after this week has passed. It allows to take one commit from another branch and add it to the current branch. … Continue reading →

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The getID3 PHP library can recognise PDFs and a bunch of other file types. In case you don’t have or need more than the PHP build in fileinfo library.

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Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP.

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Melt-Down Countdown

Posted on 14 Mar 2011 by

As seen for days, the world is facing the maximum credible accident in a multitude of nuclear power plant cores close to a region of the world that has a very hight amount and density of human population. My thoughts … Continue reading →

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HTML5 is lame

Posted on 25 Feb 2011 by

Some say XHTML was lame. If so, HTML5 will be even more lame. There isn’t any DTD. Can you imagine? Is the HEAD element needed or not? And what about the BODY or HTML element? Who can answer these questions? … Continue reading →

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html5lib – A Python and PHP implementations of a HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification.

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Pinba – Realtime Monitoring and Statistics Server for PHP

Posted on 12 Feb 2011 by

Pinba is a realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface. It accumulates and processes data sent over UDP (I like that idea) by multiple PHP processes and displays statistics in a nice human-readable form of simple … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0.5 shipped with flaw instead of enhancement (Updated 2x)

Posted on 9 Feb 2011 by

Users are reporting that WordPress 3.0.5 shipped with flaw instead of enhancement, you can find a Hotfix in form of a plugin here (more info) but it probably does not fix everything for you. #16489 Update: Various worpdress themes or … Continue reading →

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Why the GNU GPL Still Matters (16 Jul 2009 by; Glyn Moody)

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WordPress 3.0.5 Released

Posted on 8 Feb 2011 by

Following up this mornings post, WordPress 3.0.5 has been released, (and 3.1 RC4 is out as well). It contains some security fixes and hardens the previous version, namely privilege escalation and information disclosure. WordPress 3.0.5 is the first version released … Continue reading →

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WordPress now Sells Themes (Update 1x)

Posted on 5 Feb 2011 by

WordPress (com) introduces so called “premium themes” which is just a synonym for that there is a theme-market now. Founder of Automattic – the company running WordPress.com – Matt Mullenweg blogged about this as well. Looks pretty quickly hacked in, … Continue reading →

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Milestones of WordPress: Early Project Timeline (ca. 2000 to 2005)

Posted on 25 Jan 2011 by

Know the roots. If you want to learn about the general development of WordPress over time and you haven’t been with the project on from it’s very beginning and before, it looks like you’ve reached the point where it’s time … Continue reading →

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Ddccontrol and Fedora 14

Posted on 17 Jan 2011 by

I wanted to give Ddccontrol a try under Fedora 14. It did not fit the job in the end but was a nice practice for me to understand installation of programs of which no package exists. That can be tricky … Continue reading →

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WordPress Changes GPL License Text Again

Posted on 15 Jan 2011 by

Within less than a year, a wordpress core developer changed wordpress’s licensing statement again. This time it has been changed from GPL to GPL v2+. The Changeset was [17301]: WordPress contains libraries only available under the GPL v2 or later. … Continue reading →

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