Monthly Archives: September 2010

WasHTML PHP Library

Posted on 29 Sep 2010 by hakre

Noting this down for future reference: WasHTML is a PHP script that allow only safe HTML for web-applications that have to display unsafe data. It washes your HTML from dangerous data like javascript, references to unchecked remote files and forms … Continue reading →

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Git Rocks!

Posted on 28 Sep 2010 by hakre

Period. I’m currently traveling around and be it in a train or airplane or just on a offline remote-site: Git, a decentralized version control system, is like a present I’ve never asked for. It does work de-centralized, which means you … Continue reading →

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Serialization of double values in PHP 4 and PHP 5

Posted on 23 Sep 2010 by hakre

If you want to save space in your serialized data of floating point numbers in PHP, consider to use PHP 4. Naturally that is a joke :), I just note it down here because while taking a closer look on … Continue reading →

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Disable Firefox DNS Cache

Posted on 22 Sep 2010 by hakre

I found some quick and easy way (two settings to add in about:config) on how to disable DNS caching in Firefox: If you have tons of Firefox windows with even more tons of tabs open like me and being in … Continue reading →

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Display Errors on Production Sites – Today: Adult Swim

Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by hakre

Geeeez! The purple pixel robot is talking to me: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in _adultswim_get_term_name() (line 395 of / docrootas20/ sites/ all/ modules/ publicreative/ adultswim/ adultswim.module). (Source) How sweet, this will be my new friend. I’ve just fallen … Continue reading →

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Admin Quicksearch Released

Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by hakre

Just some update on the Admin Quicksearch Plugin: Inital Release is out. It’s tagged as 0.1-alpha but that’s more because I’m lazy and not because it’s that unstable. It should do the job perfectly already, it’s just, well, grabbed together … Continue reading →

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Trademark and Servicemark of Automattic Inc. and WordPress Foundation

Posted on 16 Sep 2010 by hakre

I compiled a listing of USTPO Trade- and Servicemark Registrations of both Automattic Inc and the WordPress Foundation. It is sorted by Filling Date, latest on top.

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At Your Fingertips – Just Search Quickly The Long Lists.

Posted on 15 Sep 2010 by hakre

Jeffro made a nice post: “Where Are The Settings For That Plugin?” about the problem to locate something in the ever-growing WordPress-Admin-Menu. He is sharing this problem with others. Yeah I know that long menu can somehow suck. So everybody … Continue reading →

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WordPress Trademark passed over to Foundation – Again?

Posted on 15 Sep 2010 by hakre

WordPress.com, or better Automattic Inc, the company that had registered the term “WordPress” as a trademark back in 2007 after it has been used by the free software project with the same name and it’s numerous contributors for several years, … Continue reading →

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Patrick Swayze died one year ago

Posted on 14 Sep 2010 by hakre

Dirty Dancing – Time of my Life (1987) Awards: 1991 People’s Sexiest Man Alive Preceded by: Tom Cruise Succeeded by: Nick Nolte LIFE – Remembering Patrick Swayze

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Indirect Modification of Overloaded Element of … Has No Effect

Posted on 13 Sep 2010 by hakre

I just ran into that one yesterday by playing around doing some runtime analysis. I started some XDebug-Like output for Hooks and it looks pretty well so far. Now I’d like to know where Hook’s Callbacks were registered prior to … Continue reading →

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Rasums Lerdorf on PHP Performance – Focus on WordPress.

Posted on 9 Sep 2010 by hakre

Rasums Lerdorf, birth giving father of PHP, had a presentation back in July this year at the Digg office on PHP performance optimization in San Francisco. The slides “PHP Performance – Hacker Dojo” (29 July 2010) are available online. Next … Continue reading →

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Relicensing of IXR – The Incutio XML-RPC Library (Day 15)

Posted on 8 Sep 2010 by hakre

The Incutio XML-RPC Library, used by WordPress, is available in a new version. It is relicensed under the GPL-compatible New BSD License now. The License of the file in wordpress has been questioned in the recent WordPress GPL, licensing and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – NOOP (Day 8)

Posted on 2 Sep 2010 by hakre

Day eight was mainly reflecting and running loops. I had a long and great discussion with friends in the evening not only about licensing in wordpress but in other free software projects as well that was very insightful. That poses … Continue reading →

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Summary (Week 1)

Posted on 1 Sep 2010 by hakre

The last days were very informative, I’m learning a lot about licensing. That’s not only in general but more important from a free software perspective in specific. All those how to get things right. WordPress might look a bit as … Continue reading →

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