I just ran across a nasty worm in one of my WordPress blogs (not the most current install). Not only did it overwrite a ton of files, inserting spam links and malware into the pages, but it was sneaky enough to go into my wp-admin/.svn/prop-base/ directory and re-write those files as well. It’s fairly ingenious …
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Fixing a Broken TimeMachine Backup
I had the unfortunate event of having to send my MacBook Pro into Apple for some repairs. The machine came back working fine, however there was something odd going on with TimeMachine – it wanted to do a full backup of my disk. Odd, considering I keep it plugged-in all the time when I’m at …
Update your WordPress.com RSS links!
I just noticed that the live feed from this blog to my brochure site at archive.mistercameron.com was broken. The code I wrote to parse the rss data was throwing an error because the link to http://archive.mistercameron.com/feed no longer resolved. Huh. The folks at WordPress must have changed something in their .htaccess file recently because adding …
CakePHP: Storing Configs in your DB
There are many situations in web apps where site-wide configurations need to be accessible to users through admin interfaces, rather than configuration files residing on the server. It is a practical method of storing configuration values that may need changing from time to time, but without access to the core configuration file. UPDATE (2008-10-22): This …
CakePHP Access Control Alphabet Soup
Reading through a few of my most recent posts, you’ll quickly learn that I’m learning CakePHP as my PHP framework of choice. So far, so good. Actually, it’s pretty good, but that is not without some questions I’ve had along the way. I’m probably getting stuck more than I should on best practice coding, but …
HABTM Unit Testing in CakePHP
I use this blog quite a bit for documenting little quirks, bugs, work-arounds, neat things, and tutorials so that I know where I can find the solution in the future. At the same time, you benefit by hopefully not having to go through some of the same messes I did just to get to this …
Framework Mania: CakePHP
It has been an interesting month – at the same time I’m picking up CakePHP, I have a client project that uses the Zend Framework. Right out of the gates I like CakePHP better. ZF doesn’t seem quite as cohesive as Cake, so getting it set-up has been more challenging. Granted, the client’s setup is …
Zend Framework – Getting Started
Working with a new client project this week that requires the Zend Framework. It’s not my choice of frameworks, but I’m still eager to get going on it. As I’m a bit more familiar with CakePHP, I thought it would be wise to watch a screencast or two about getting started on ZF to see what …
The New ShopZoo.com
Well, it’s finally out the door: the new ShopZoo.com – The online store for the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park. The project was to produce a new ecommerce platform to replace the previous. Many thanks to the team for your hard work getting this out the door, especially with so many great enhancements …
EnvironmentalLights Redesign Launch
After much work and anticipation, the Environmental Lights redesign has launched. I’ve effectively been the dev project lead (not project manager) for this site (via 212Interactive) for the last year – a great experience. The goal for this redesign was to clean up some of the design and make the site easier for customers to …