The power of SUDO

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C# Extension Methods

After a few months I've enjoyed the newly ( or not ) added extension methods in 3.0 yesterday i discovered that one of the assumptions I've made about them was false. My assumption was that if the instance on witch you call an extension method is NULL you would get a NullReferenceException. Turns out it's… Continue reading

ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET just got plesent

I've been really busy the last months with the new job where we use c#. I've grown found to it ... it has a lot of nice features ... lambda expressions, anonymous types, generic types. Sure there are a lot of thing that can be improved like real generic types ( aka C++ templates )… Continue reading

Wordpress Update to 2.8

Wordpress has been updated to the latest version. Also working on a few problems server side to secure and speed up things. Hope everything works out OK…

Wordpress Exploit Scanner Plugin

I've found a few days ago this plugin and i would like to share with everybody since it may help secure the web. This plugin scans the wordpress installation folder for paterns usualy found in exploits/throjans/malware web scripts. The plugin produces quite a few false positive alerts but also it's very easy… Continue reading

I gave up on Coppermine Gallery

I used to use Coppermine Photo Gallery for http://gallery.erata.net but today i've decided to close it down. The number of vulnerabilities ( most of them critical ) discovered over the years got me thinking. You can see what i mean here http://www.milw0rm.com/search.php?dong=coppermine. 3 vulnerabilities… Continue reading

New Theme for Erata.NET

I found this theme on Wordpress Theme Directory and loved it at first site. The theme is called Librio and its inspired by Mac OS X Leopard. The theme author is Denis. Thanks Denis, great theme…

Nokia to Add LGPL to Qt Licensing Model

This is incredible news. No point in making this post longer ... who knows what this means understands why it's incredible. Who does not know what this means ... won't care anyhow :) http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt And when i first heard about nokia buying trolltech i thought i'll have to forget… Continue reading

Life with g++

The intention of this article is to show a few useful ( i hope ) tips about using g++ in the every day development cycle. Also this article describes three build configurations that should help the developer catch bugs in the early stages of development. Continue reading

Flash on FreeBSD – Gnash

Watching flash content on FreeBSD was and still is a problem. It's sad Adobe won't publish a native version of flash for FreeBSD, or even better open the sources for the flash player. It's strange they don't, unless the sources are a real mess I don't see any strong reason for not doing so. Now that rumors are found about new technologies for web graphics likesvg, html 5, flash might not be so popular in the future. Continue reading
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