What's up with AdSense? I've noticed over the past two days that many of my sites that use AdSense are showing an ad for Windows Vista, which is completely irrelevant to the content of the sites. Most of these sites have some Canadian content on them and the ad URL is windowsvista.ca. Conversely, my sites […]

Recently, a security vulnerability was reported in the the design of the Pingback specification. Basically, the specification fails to include a service or URL authentication model, making it susceptible to abuse.
This issue affects several software packages that implement pingbacks, including Wordpress 2.0.7, yet there has been little information posted about this on WordPress.org. WordPress 2.1 […]

It wasn't the first time that I couldn't locate the Metrics link in my Performancing account, but this time it wasn't coming back. Performancing.com started 2007 with a couple of announcements that will introduce sweeping changes to their offering of services. Gone is the popular free blog traffic analysis tool Metrics, having just been acquired […]

International PHP Magazine is running a poll on their website right now about the best PHP MVC framework. What surprises me is that the editors left out Code Igniter! Admittedly, Code Igniter implements a loose MVC pattern that does not require Models. Perhaps this was the reason for the exclusion? CakePHP is running away with […]

Last night, I installed some development software on my new laptop, but rather than install Apache, PHP and MySQL manually as I've done in the past, I opted to use WAMP5. Wow, talk about easy! WAMP5 installed the aforementioned apps (as well as phpMyAdmin) in just a couple of clicks, and provides me with easy […]