Plesk is a powerful hosting automation control panel, used at a large scale in case of Linux hosting services. It has an intuitive graphical user interface and a wide range of options which simplify the administration of a Linux based hosting account. In a similar manner as CPanel, Plesk allows you to automatically install popular PHP / MySQL applications, like WordPress, Joomla and more.
Even the upcoming candidate for the most popular blogging platform WordPress should have the version number 2.9, a new release from the 2.8 branch is available: WordPress 2.8.5. It represents a security update, which should be treated as a priority by WordPress blog owners, because WordPress version 2.8.5 provides a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack, a recent severe security exploit, identified for several numbers of times. (more…)
Lee Brimelow, a well known evangelist at Adobe Platform, has just posted a new FLARManager free video tutorial on how to create Augmented Reality (AR) applications in a simpler manner, as compared with FLARToolkit, the AS3 ported version of ARToolKit software library for creation of AR apps. (more…)
One year ago, in the article “A New Powerful Virus Could Affect Millions of WordPress Blogs“, there was underlined the necessity of performing updates of WordPress sites, especially when critical security issues are fixed in the current software release. The latest version (2.8.2) of the popular blogging platform WordPress was just launched and is ready for free download. WordPress 2.8.2 patches an XSS security vulnerability: due to the fact that the author’s comment URLs were not fully sanitized in version 2.8.1, an attacker could used this security leak in order to redirect you from the administration area to another website.
Depending on the web images type and destination, the commonly used file formats are PNG and JPEG. Regarding the web design area, PNG image file format is widely used in the structure of sites templates, due to its major advantages, as compared with GIF and JPEG images. The main advantage of PNG image file is represented by the possibility of achieving an optimal ratio between image quality and file size, because it permits you to display an image with the highest possible quality, but corresponding to a lower file size.
As you may already know, WordPress blogging platform is built with PHP coding language and extracts data for building HTML pages from a MySQL database. The default WordPress installation does not ensure the maximum pages loading speed in case of your blog, especially when it have a high amount of content like images and JavaScript elements, as well as many activated plugins. When an user requests a web page, the number of functions executed on server side and client side implies processes which are resources consuming if certain tweaks are not performed. WP Super Cache plugin provides a good alternative to improve the overall performance of your WordPress blog by generating static HTML pages, therefore minimizing the number of database requests.
Usually, common WordPress templates do not have included by default a customizable menu that allows the display of categories in the header. You can manually write the code necessary to include a navigation bar at the top of your template or use a simpler alternative provided by PixoPoint WordPress plugin. It will automatically add an accessible, regular or drop-down (SEO friendly) menu to your WordPress blog.
PHP development team has just announced the availability of PHP version 5.3.0. This release comes with major improvements as compared with the previous versions existing in PHP 5.x series. PHP version 5.3.0 has many new features, as well as bug fixes (in this release over 140 bugs were repaired). In the migration guide intended for the users of PHP 5.2.0 who want to upgrade to PHP 5.3.0, there are explained the main differences between versions 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 of PHP.
According to the Software Freedom Law Center, the WordPress themes, being derivative works of WordPress should be licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, except CSS and image files (art work). Software Freedom Law Center was performed a comprehensive analysis regarding the interaction between the PHP code, which is GPL and the WordPress template elements “called” through PHP routines and the conclusion is a little bit confusing at first sight:
Qcodo development framework is an environment for truly object oriented PHP coding. This framework is based on PHP 5 and remove the need for tedious hours of work by reducing them to minutes. Therefore prototypes will be rolled out in minutes, while the developers gain more time to refine the application functionality, usability, performance and security. Qcodo framework is capable to support complex projects and in the same time it will amaze you through its lightweight file size and structure.
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
Among the similar free Internet blogging services, Posterous can be regarded as the most intuitive, simplest and fastest web content publishing platform. There are several reasons to make these considerations about Posterous blogging service: the web pages loading time is optimized such that any page is rendered almost instantly, the content (photos, MP3’s, documents and video) can be published directly from an email, the service does not impose the creation of an account and the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor has the simplest graphical user interface. Now, Posterous provides you the possibility to automatically import an existing blog, made on Blogger, Wordpress,Typepad, Movable Type and Xanga platforms.
When you need to quickly build a small website, many of the existing free content management systems could have more customization options than needed, and as a consequence they are harder to setup. LightNEasy is a lightweight PHP content management system with a minimum amount of configuration parameters. Practically, without having HTML or PHP knowledge, you are allowed to rapidly deploy a simple website with ten or twenty pages in no time. The pages structure is compliant with the requirements of main SEO principles, therefore the website will be correctly indexed by the search engine spiders.
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