sign FAIL

March 31st, 2009 No comments

Notice this in Cambridge today – looks like a wee fail to me (there was a few more than the two bikes in the picture along the wall outside the college)

bike-fail

“Please do not lean cycles against this wall”

securing wordpress

March 8th, 2009 No comments

Notes on how to secure wordpress 2.7.1 (this is all pretty well documented, but I ran into a couple of dohs!)

o Remove the default admin user
o Create a user you want to login as
o Login as this new user
o Remove the ‘admin’ user – assign all posts to new user

o Force all admin features via HTTPS, edit wp-config.php

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);

o Force logins via SSL, edit wp-config.php

define('FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true);

Things I ran into was a cut and paste error inserting those annoying smart quotes, but once I did that everything’s golden.

playing with textmate

March 1st, 2009 No comments

OMG (and other leet things), textmate has built in just about everything, ok probably faster using a real web browser to post a blog, but I’ll have to see how useful the svn and SQL bundles are.