Entries written in July 2009

Make your security updates easy to use

Written July 22, 2009 in Asides

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Phillip Cohen has an insightful post about how making your product easier to update, makes it more secure, because it’s not “painful” to update. He compares two of my favorite open source products, WordPress and Mediawiki.

He also included my favorite cartoon character, Calvin :) …

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WordPress Configuration Tricks

Written July 13, 2009 in Note-To-Self

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I found this great list of clever things you can do with WordPress’ config file:

Many WordPress users know the wp-config.php file as the key to the WordPress database. It is where you set the database name, username, password, and location. [...] But what many users don’t know is that the

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Semantic Mediawiki – quick reference

Written July 12, 2009 in Note-To-Self

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The Semantic MediaWiki quick reference is a one-page reference, created by Yaron Koren, for the MediaWiki extensions Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Forms, Semantic Calendar and Semantic Drilldown. It can be downloaded here:

via SMW quick reference.

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