Yesterday I accepted an invitation to go to New York next weekend for a Joomla bug squashing day (or as Wilco, the development workgroup coordinator puts it, “PBF”: Pizza Bugs and Fun).
This morning I booked my ticket.
This evening I’m terrified.
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For any project where I’ve been managing more than one or two developers, I’ve always been a proponent of good testing and QA practises, but until fairly recently I wasn’t big on formal unit testing, especially in my one-man projects.
That’s changing, and fast. (more…)
Considering that my main blog is already all over the map, topic-wise, I though it better to create another place to put the really technical stuff. This way it’s off the main page and you really have to be looking for it.
In an absolutely brilliant but evil move, a Trojan fools users into solving CAPTCHA images. Infected users think that they’re entering codes to see a model undress, when actually they’re helping crackers register for illegal Yahoo accounts. (more…)
Several years ago Corel’s then-CEO Michael Cowpland made quite a stir with his offhand attitude to software piracy. Paraphrasing, the slant of what he said was that he’d rather have people use unauthorized copies of his product than those of a competitor. [I have been unable to find a reference for this.] (more…)
Canadians: Want to help your country become globally competitive? Buy American!
If that sounds like a contradiction… (more…)
In principle, the “network is the system” idea has a lot of merit. The benefits of having all your data stored in some reliable, secure, redundant database that’s centrally managed and hooking into it with whatever device is at hand — be it a desktop machine or a cell phone — has a lot of appeal. Keeping a system available on the net, up to date with fixes and patches, and secure is no trivial job. It’s exactly the sort of thing that should be left to someone who is a professional at it.
[Revised: Less than 24 hours after I posted this, I received a phone call from a salesforce.com representative, apologizing for the misuse of my information. My understanding is that one of their partners is to blame; that the misuse originated outside their organization. I was looking forward to receiving more details in an e-mail, but in preparing to let their mail pass my spam defences, I messed up — and all mail has been bounced from late Friday through most of the weekend. Hopefully they will re-send it so I can add more factual information to this. At this point, it’s clear that at least Salesforce takes this sort of misuse very seriously, and I have accepted their apology.] (more…)Chris Brogan recently blogged about some people who coined the term “Bacn,” defined as “any email you receive that isn’t spam, but isn’t exactly a personal message either”. The essence is that Bacn isn’t Spam, because you signed up for it somehow. (more…)
The great thing about Skype is that people can get in touch with you from just about anywhere, and that can lead to great friendships and business. The not so great thing is that any dork from anywhere on the planet can use this same convenience to rip people off.
Here’s a message I received today: (more…)
The fun thing about organized criminal credit card fraudsters is that they always have to stay a step ahead. I guess people were starting to catch on to the "Free" Vacation scam, so they had to come up with a new one.
Today I got to hear it for the first time. It’s so simple it’s brilliant. (more…)
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