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Archive for July, 2010

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Hardening WordPress: when 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks are not enough

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/07

Last week, Jean-Baptiste Jung started a bit of a stir when posting on Smashing Magazine about 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks.

He totally missed the official Hardening WordPress page and generated a lot of comment traffic.
All of his tweaks were rebutted by commenter Vid Luther (Mobile Commerce and Technology Evangelist and ZippyKid owner) in a separate How to Secure a WordPress Site.

This once again shows that for serious work you really need to know what you are doing.
If you don’t, then leave the work to people who do: Vid is one of those guys.

–jeroen

via: 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks – Smashing Magazine.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/jean-baptiste-jung

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Chrome – report New Issue – chromium

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/06

For my reference: Report a New Issue – chromium.

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Delphi interfaces on binary level « The Programming Works

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/06

This interesting post by Serg Kas on Delphi interfaces on binary level didn’t make it on DelphiFeeds, hence my reference to it.

It is a nice post about the inner workings of interfaces in Delphi.

Recommended reading!

–jeroen

via: Delphi interfaces on binary level « The Programming Works.

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Alternative PDF viewers

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/06

Some alternatives to Adobe Reader for the Windows platform:

The development channel of Google Chrome now has a rudimentary built-in PDF viewer.

–jeroen

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Bleeding Edge: Vodafone UMTS caused WordPress.com “edit link” to be broken in Google Chrome. #fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/05

Last week I wrote about Bleeding Edge: version WordPress.com “edit link” broken in latest Google Chrome stable build – or is Vodafone causing this? #fail.

Since then I have researched this further: I verified that the http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js link indeed was caused by Vodafone.

They use a mechanism of directing all HTTP traffic through a transparent proxy and rewriting both the HTML and images in compressed form in order to save bandwidth.

There are a few problems with this:

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Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/02

My Windows XP VM’s all use the classic logon, so logging in as Administrator involves just typing in the Administrator name and a password.

Recently though I had to use a VM with a “Frienly Logon” configuration (the one where you see icons for all available logon users), which did not list the Administrator user.

As a reminder to self: how to logon as Administrator when that account is not visible in the “Friendly Logon” account list. Read the rest of this entry »

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TFS: Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user – via TFS Version Control and more

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/01

I recently needed to undo a TFS checkout from a user on another workspace.
This particular user had an exclusive lock on the document, was scheduled to be away for considerable time, and I was supposed to finalize that document.

I know that performing the undo is not possible from the Visual Studio UI: you need use the TF command-line application for this kind of work.

Fiddling on my own with the TF undo syntax didn’t get me the results right away, so I was glad to find this “Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user” post by mrod (Mario Rodriguez) from Microsoft.

The trick was to include the bold part: Read the rest of this entry »

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