Archive for March, 2009

• Backtweets Bookmarklet to Search Twitter

  BackTweets is a very useful service that searches for a URL in the major URL shortening services on Twitter. Their bookmarklet takes over the current window and away from the content you want to search twitter for. My version below will open a search in a new window or tab preserving the original page.

  March 18th, 2009

• WordPress Hacking – Client Side Vulnerabilities

  I had a hosting client call me recently telling me the site wasn’t working in Chrome. I duly checked and saw a warning given that the site contained links to malware. Initially I thought that the WordPress install had been compromised in some manner, but I knew that the code base was the latest as [...]

  March 18th, 2009

• Seven Things You Don’t Know About Me

  … unless of course you’ve already seen me answer something like this on facebook, 43things, etc etc… Our favourite bonobo Richard Dewick of Makak Media kindly invited me to participate in the meme. The Seven Things: I’ve worked in banking, as a COBOL programmer, an assembler programmer, music retail, games development and web development. I [...]

  March 10th, 2009