My Twitter Got Hacked, What Next? The Obvious, Less Obvious & Forensic
And there goes the morning. If I could describe a deeply annoying start to the day, it would be thus: Wake up to discover that you’re offering your Twitter followers a sweet deal on Jordan’s (whatever the hell they/s/he is/are). Then follows a flood of tweets, direct messages, emails, text messages and the other half shouting across the room, “your Twitter account has been hacked”.
Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 1 – Installation & Security
After six years, I finally bit the bullet and decided to make the jump from Drupal to Wordpress. The reasons are numerous and I’m planning another blog post to chisel through that particular rock and hard place.
Using SSH for WordPress Automatic Updates
Plugins like SSH-SFTP-Updater-Support provide an easy way to use SSH for plugin, theme and core updates but requires a manual process each time. In its recent release Wordpress 3.7 enabled automatic background updates – no-one wants to wait for a security patch, right?
Elite: How a classic game introduced 3d graphics, virtual goods and computer generated worlds
The computer games industry is worth billions. Grand Theft Auto alone is expected to make £1bn. Teams of 100+ work for years crafting intricate game play, dizzying visuals, head-spinning mathematics to make it all work. In 1982, computer games weren’t very good. This is a story of two Cambridge graduates who turned the games world upside down.
Setting Reverse DNS for Rackspace Next Generation Cloud Servers
OK, so a heavy duty bit of geekery here. I’ve written this up largely so that I’ve got a future reference for it, but also because I imagine there’ll be other people looking for the info and I couldn’t find… [read more]
How to Enable Google Plus (G+) for Google Apps. Finally!
It always struck me as somewhat of a spectacular own goal that when Google launched Google Plus (G+) in late June 2011, that it wasn’t available for the 4 million businesses coughing up real money for Google Apps, let alone those using them for free.
RIP Steve Jobs, the Geek Generation Loses Their John Lennon
RIP Steve Jobs.
I saw the news in the early hours of yesterday morning (UK time), whilst I was sitting cross-legged on the bedroom floor trying to force conference badges through my (non-Apple) printer without much luck.
Adding Social Interaction Analytics to Drupal’s Google Analytics Module
If, like me, you read the recent announcement that Google Analytics just added social tracking to their tool, you’ll probably be thinking, “Nice, I’d like to get me some of that social media analytics”.
How to Turn On Gmail Priority Inbox for Google Apps
A couple of years back I started using a tool called ClearContext, which prioritised the 3-400 daily emails I receive based on their priority. Some special algorithmic magic looked at how often I read, how quickly I responded to automatically work out what was a priority based on my behaviour.
The Phantom Menace: Is Comment Spam Killing Your Site?
Comment spam is a thing of the past. Or so I thought. Then, one Friday night an alert popped up saying one of our web servers was down. Whilst hunting the problem, I discovered that it might still be a major problem for websites and had a go at some code to tackle it. Why bother? Over the last week 1,774 IP addresses posted 16,149 comments. Or at least they tried.