We have been seeing an increase recently in the amount of hacked WordPress installations. One of the largest causes of a site being exploited, has been outdated “theme” files containing the tool “TimThumb”. An explanation of the exploit can be found Here. We recommend that folks that have themes built […]
So we work on Magento ecommerce solutions quite frequently. For the most basic setups, both the community and enterprise version perform like a charm. They are extremely easy to setup, configure and get rolling with Authorize.net with a basic theme overhaul. The problem is, when you start to go offroad […]
Starting to configure a new Dell PowerConnect 6248, I realized that my new laptop didn’t have a serial interface to configure the initial router setup (Dell, seriously, the VT-100 console mode is a tad 1978-ish). There’s no fear, I have an old Ubuntu box that so happens to have a […]
Using our quick prototype Google Earth tool, we put together a map from the USGS showing the Magnitude 5.6 – Oklahoma earthquake. Preview Google Earth Map Here
Recently we were impressed with another LinkedIn developer project programmatically pulled together user LinkedIn network data. We decided to put together a prototype that would place network connections geographically across the globe. We found out quite a lot about the LinkedIn API (it is limited and a bit buggy when […]
Google Earth Prototype: Latest projected IRENE Hurricane path and track from NOAA. Preview Google Earth Map Here
Using our quick prototype Google Earth tool, we put together a quick map from the USGS showing the Magnitude 5.8 – VIRGINIA earthquake. Preview Google Earth Map Here Update 8/23/11 8:11PM EST: Added another layer to the Google Earth Map that shows recent seismic data from across the globe.
The church I attend had a need for a new kiosk that would be used to serve up the webpage of their online giving portal. I immediately volunteered, having had done a few basic kiosks in the past for fun, using the Morphix and other old-school linux live cd version. […]
Everyone knows that you need to have a “strong” password when creating new accounts on the internet. The problem is that creating them from scratch can be a big pain. The following website is a Godsend, if you don’t want to have to think about creating your new password. It […]
We move quite a few customers from one hosting provider to our own or setup additional servers. One of the things we frequently run into are that our customers frequently are not aware of what exactly they own and/or have access to. If your website and email are hosted externally, […]
