BurningbirdWayback Machine has copy of this story with comments Last week I had an email from a person writing an anger management manual, who wanted permission to quote my old posts about using anger as a weapon against helplessness. In the posts, I wrote about Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman’s research into a cause of depression he termed […]
Chapter 1: When you’re satisfied with how your test functions to a web application such as Flickr are working and you then move to encapsulate the code into a reusable form, make sure you follow Simple Rule #1: rather than spending a considerable amount of time hacking, tearing apart, and picking to pieces the code […]
I’ve decided that the current implementation of the metadata layer is unworkable. Too vulnerable, and becoming too cumbersome for developers to work with. Additionally, since it has a significant overhead, and not everyone is interested in it, I’m pulling it out as an integrated component and adding it as a drop-in infrastructure that takes advantage […]
While I struggle with my own security demons, Thomas Waldegger emailed to let me know that the BugTraq security alert for WordPress has gone live. I am still getting requests for a patch file for this issue, and would rather that the WordPress team respond to these since the notice has gone public. This alert does […]
Wordform’s metadata extensions require form elements with a minimum of a button to push — usually with fields to fill in. These form elements are incorporated into the general gen_metadata.php page, depending on which extension is currently being invoked. The gen_metadata.php (see source) file accesses the extension directory and outputs a list of available extensions — […]