Testing Windows Live Writer

It’s not that writing posts in Wordpress is hard, but i just have a feeling that Live Writer might make me write more often :) . Writing these first lines seems to be a pleasant experience so far. And i would really like to publish some stuff about things that i have been working with and that i found to be quite interesting … NServiceBus , NHibernate and… read full article

WordPress upgrade to 2.9

Finaly wordpress 2.9 is out. As usual the upgrade went smoothly without any problems. Also there seems to be no compatibility issues with the plugins, at least the ones i have installed.

I have to admit, i’m not a big fan of php, and php apps in general, but i admire the great work the wordpress team does. I haven’t tried any .net based… read full article

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 to spot suspicious code in suspicious files.

It would be nice if… read full article

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 found in the first two months of 2009.  4 in 2008. This remembers me of… read full article

WordPress WassUp Error

I\’ve upgraded the wassup plugin to the latest version ( 1.5 ) and an error started to show in the pages:

[ wp_wassup_tmp\' doesn\'t exist ]

The solution is to deactivate the plugin and then reactivate it… witch should be the right way to upgrade your plugins. read full article