Having just upgraded this wordpress to the new one I wanted to have the whole goodness and installed wp-cache to have static pages of my posts. However it seems that the newly released wp-super-cache plugin for WordPress had some nasty vulnerabilities. The first to report that to me was Chris Messina on twitter followed by […]

Jonathan Boutelle of Slideshare reacted to my slideshare show widget and liked how I hacked around the API by re-using the RSS feed. He now asked in the comments what I’d like to see from an API. Well, here goes: Allow for “hackable” URLs, with definition of the output. Flickr and Del.icio.us are good examples, […]

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you might remember functions like the following: function doLayerFloat(id,start,end,direction,speed,fade,whatelse,Iforgot){ ... } This, at least to me is rather annoying […]

Well, in a competition, not just directly. I like the idea of Sky News’ Developer Competition where they offer all in all £10k in prize money for widget and badge implementations of the content of their RSS feeds. Talented developers can use the feeds to create their own applications. The brains with the best ideas […]

I am a big fan of gmail (and a lot of colleagues scowl at me for it). With the massive amount of emails I get daily and me working on 3 computers there is just no other way to get around them. Until the latest update of gmail though. Now my two laptops (both Windows) […]