Comments on: Adventures In Apartment Management

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:29:21 +0000

It is hard to plan ahead when the climate is shifting. You expect certain things at certain times and it doesn’t work like that any more.

Actually the cooler weather is good for a heartier menu, including hot pasta dishes and casseroles, so there is that benefit, but no one needs the utility bills.

At this point I’m just trying to finish up with doctors and get back to real life.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:07:05 +0000

Hi Bryan. 🙂

No problems with the NSW storm here. 🙂 But it has been getting damned chilly! Had to break out my winter doona (down filled quilt to you) and use the heater in the evenings. So much for trying to keep the bills down! *shrug* Also have to wear winter clothes when i go out, especially early morning. The wind is damned cold! I don’t normally have to any of that until mid-late May!

Only had a few days rain (showers really) the past few months. So dry is easy. Warm is the problem! 😉 😀

I finally got to make my fave pasta dish for the first time in a few years! Yummmmm! LOL I posted the recipe a while back. 🙂

You too m8… stay comfy! And stay safe and healthy. 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:51:07 +0000

I hope you aren’t being affected by that mess in NSW with the tropical storm that can’t be called an official tropical storm.

Trying to debug PHP is a real PITA, especially when there is no common programming style from module to module. Open source is great until you need to fix something. Having more than one set of eyes looking for the problem is always good, especially if it turns out to be a typo rather than a logic problem.

Stay dry, m8.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:30:18 +0000

Agree about M$. Dev’s have been pretty vocal for a long time about access to core code. Major developers with deep pockets have had access with very restrictive NDA’s. Some of that code has been leaked over the years (someone released most of the source for W95 some years ago). *shrug*

One of the reasons I got a Gold Developer account with WPMU DEV was because of all the trouble I had trying to get a couple PHP based plugins I created working with without problems! Was a real PITA! Fix one problem & create 2+ others! The guys @ WPMU DEV really know their stuff and I’ve had a couple hairy and seemingly unrelated issues pop up that they helped me work around within 24h. 🙂 Probably would have taken me days. Plus they are a local (Melb.) based company which is nice for a change. 😀 The real benefits of being a member with come when I get serious about WP Multisite & maybe BuddyPress.

Anyhow, I hope all is well with y’all! 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:56:30 +0000

Super Cache causes problems with a lot of other plug-ins. It provides speed, but it tends to be flaky. There have been XSS, feed, ping problems forever. I have blocked access to the module on my site, just like I have blocked log-in. There is a lot of code involved that was written for ‘ease of use’ without any thought of security or documentation.

My host has a WP blog and alerts about problems they see, and solutions, so attacks are short-lived, but I don’t make many changes beyond updating the WP software and the plug-ins I use.

Yes, having access to the kernel really would make life easier for developers, as they wouldn’t have to deal with mistakes made in the upper software by M$ if they could directly deal with the lower level. Drivers would be the most important example, most non-M$ software could benefit.

I really can’t see M$ giving up their cash cow totally, that’s not who they are. It will be limited open source.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:52:02 +0000

As for WordPress, I had to hack WordPress to do a theme for our Jeep club. No thank you. There’s a reason why my blog uses the hosted WordPress.com with a stock theme. WordPress is a PITA.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:45:31 +0000

Nah, Kryten. If Microsoft releases an “Open Source” OS, they’ll do like Apple and just release core kernel and driver source, leaving the rest of Windows copyrighted. Cynical? yeah, but Microsoft tends to copy Apple a lot, and actually having core kernel and driver source would help developers a lot because currently driver development for Windows is a PITA and drivers tend to be buggy as hell due to lack of decent example drivers. Having the whole core OS driver set there as examples would definitely result in better drivers for Windows.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:08:49 +0000

Oh! What do you guy’s think of this?

Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is ‘Definitely Possible’

More of the usual M$ FUD? 😉 😀

Then again… If they do release an OS OS (couldn’t resist)… It’ll probably be based on W95 (or even Win 3!) LOL

Right! Lunch. 😀

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:06:07 +0000

“I did not go towards the sound of the shot, because I don’t want to show up on YouTube shooting someone, and don’t get paid to do that sort of thing anymore.”

Sorry m8, but I had to laugh! 😀 We think the same way on that. 😉 😀

Yeah, weeks like that happen. It’s the power of the evil “3” my gran told me, and she has sadly been proved correct more often than I care to remember! What is is with that “trouble comes in 3’s” anyway? It’s definitely one of those ‘old sayings’ that I wish was dead wrong. *SIGH* Still, hopefully your run is done and things will be better for awhile. 🙂

I just got an email for some WP news and alerts, don’t know if you’ve seen them, so I’ll post links:

FBI Alert I-040715a-PSA:
ISIL Defacements Exploiting WordPress Vulnerabilities

WP Tavern has ways to secure WP sites from the exploits:
FBI Warns of ISIL Defacement Attacks on WordPress Sites

WP Tavern – A WP Super Cache plugin exploit:
Persistent XSS Vulnerability Discovered in WP Super Cache Plugin

And the big news for WP 4.2: “WordPress 4.2 will introduce subtle refinements to the default admin color scheme.” Aha…

And this was interesting: “Stack Overflow Developer Survey Ranks WordPress as the 3rd Most Dreaded Technology”

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey Ranks WordPress as the 3rd Most Dreaded Technology
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Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which covers a wide range of topics including preferred programming languages, education, compensation, and even caffeine consumption. The 45-question survey ran for just two weeks in February and the site was able to collect results from more than 26,000 participants.

Obviously, Stack Overflow survey respondents do not represent a perfect cross section of all developers worldwide, and the overview clearly states the results are skewed by selection bias and language bias, among other biases. However, the site does reach a massive audience of developers, with 32 million visits per month, 25 million of which are return visitors.

The vast majority of respondents were male (92.1%) who describe their profession as “Full-stack web developer” (32.4%), the largest section, followed by student (13.6%), back-end web developer (10.1%), and mobile developer (9.1%).

WordPress was highlighted as one of the most dreaded technologies of those surveyed, trailing Visual Basic and Salesforce. The term “most dreaded” was used to indicate the “% of devs who are developing with the language or tech but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so.”

Well… I need lunch & coffee. Had no running water the past 2.5 days. Kitchen hot water tap started dripping and got faster. Filled a 2l bottle in under 5 min’s! Had to turn the water off @ the mains. Plumber couldn’t get here before this morning. I had flashbacks to living in some remote military camps! LOL Anyway, was nice to have a hot shower again. 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:05:28 +0000

No one ever feels the need to actually deal with the problem of bubbles, because they think they will be smart enough to escape at the top before the bubble bursts. The larger economy is barely moving while Wall Street is soaring.

SoCal doesn’t have the resources of northern California, and the Central Valley is in even worse shape. The ag sector is drying up like it did in the Imperial Valley when Arizona claimed its share of Colorado River water in the 1980s. I lost a couple of large clients in the Valley. They move their operations to Arizona because they depended on the cheap water.