by Rich Stern | Aug 28, 2014 | WordPress
WordPress has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. In particular, the releases of the last two years, along with the fast growing base of plugins, have made the platform incredibly flexible for content management. More and more,...
by Rich Stern | Jul 23, 2014 | Technology, WordPress
I’ve had a chance to experiment a bit with the latest beta version of the upcoming WordPress 4 release. It’s safe to say that users of recent versions of WordpPress 3 will make an easy transition to WordPress 4. There are no radical design departures. ...
by Rich Stern | Apr 14, 2014 | Technology
Server admins, security experts, and the world wide web were caught by surprise with the announcement of the Heartbleed exploit. In a nutshell, Heartbleed is a bug in the open source Linux encryption software known as openSSL. The flaw allows hackers to potentially...
by Rich Stern | Mar 2, 2014 | Technology
Frustrated by brute force attacks on your server from botnets with ever-changing IP addresses? Me, too. I finally got around to assembling a simple Linux active firewall, which I call “slaf”. This PHP script monitors the CentOS secure log and records...
by Rich Stern | Feb 2, 2014 | Sunshop
A recent implementation of Sunshop involved getting thousands of products into Sunshop from a wholesale inventory file. The wholesaler had very high level category arrangements that wouldn’t work for a online store. The store needed many more categories and...
