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Week-end’s discoveries: W3C Slidy rocks, SQLite sucks

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I found out a good tool to make slide shows without having to use a program such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation, called Slidy.
You only have to include a JavaScript file, and optionally, a CSS in order to define different classes. All what you need is a basic [X]HTML/CSS knowledge, and go ahead! It […]

How to cheat on “Top Tunisie Blogs”

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Please note, this post is only for informational purpose and therefore doesn’t aim to encourage you to use illegal ways in order to increase your rating in “Top Tunisie Blogs“, but to inform the administrator about vulnerabilities and how to fix them. I have never used any of the methods below, and if you […]

Yet another respectable blogger!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

After some days of talk, I finally could convince a childhood friend, Kaizuko, to set up a blog. Kaizuko was discouraged at first, as had no ideas to talk about, but wrote 5 posts today, all treating interesting topics!!
Feel free to find out about the new blog called “My thoughts are my company“.
Welcome Kaizuko […]

Updated Permalink structure

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Looking for more Google ranking, I updated my permalink structure and set it to the following for posts:
http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archive/999
The feature is included within wordpress, but you can handle it manually using mod_rewrite.
Note that old URL structure (/?p=999) still works.

An E-mail form with captcha — I challenge you all!

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

During 20 miutes of boredom, I added a more or less complicated captcha to my contact form. It’s based on a 256 bit encryption, session handling and Gd image generation.
Spammers made me sick, they send any carp, link to anywhere, I don’t know what exactly is their objective, to encourage me to buy? I […]

DokuWiki

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

I fell in love with a Wiki platform, DokuWiki.
Never seen such thing! It doesn’t need any SQL database, security policy is excellent, code is strangely XHTML valid (even when I try to screw it up), everything is controlled through admin interface, it has a cool behavior, and hacking on it is very simple and […]

Spamming Blogs — Howto

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Disclaimer:

A renunciation of any claim to or connection with
Disavowal
A statement made to save one’s ass

That’s not my definition, I found it at the movie “Dogma”.
Anyway, This post doesn’t aim to encourage you to spam else’s blog, but this is a message to those who underestimate the spam effect that shows how easy and simple […]

Easter Eggs

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Microsoft Buys Google
Have a look at http://g00gl3.com, enter your license and use google.
I know this joke since more than 2 years, and I can’t stop laughing every time I see it.
 
Can not find Intelligence
Visit a non-existent link at word press plugins portal; for example
http://wp-plugins.net/zzz ; no, it’s not really as serious as it seems […]

Installed plugins

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I have just added some plugins to my Word Press:

Related posts (so that old posts won’t be lost)
Subscribe to comments (whether you want to be noticed at a new comment)
Keywords (Useful for Technorati tags and meta tags)

I also added statistics and database backup (That’s for me). Again, welcome everybody to my blog!

Finally, installed Captcha

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Spammers made me shit: over 100 spams per day obliged me to install a Captcha plugin that works fine for now; I choosed fonts that can be read by human beings, hope it doesn’t bother you, serious people of course.

Fixing PHP code

Friday, April 14th, 2006

A         a is an intern whom I am supposed to assist to fix her PHP code. The following case seems obvious; it’s nevertheless tricky.
 
- A         a: I have several checkboxes whose the number depends on the database rows. Once a user submits, checkboxes are displayed again, but the ones already checked must appear checked too.
Initial […]

QCMGen ain’t dead, OpenSource neither!

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Today seems to be Tom’s day in my blog!
Tom asked me some days ago whether I can contribute to the first Tunisian OpenSource project QCM-Gen 0.1, something I cannot refuse; however, I spent my free time watching Jackass the movie and playing chess. Finally I decided yesterday to work on it seriously (well, […]

WordPress Today Events

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

I have released a 0.1 version of a pseudo WordPress plugin which displays events that occured in the same day / month along the history.
Pseudo, becuase it’s doesn’t have plugins features; I can even say it’s independent from WordPress. It consists of 2 MySQL tables: the main (wp_todayevents) and the backup one (wp_todayevents_archive) and […]

Permanent links in WordPress

Friday, March 10th, 2006

I don’t like the way of making permanent links in WordPress blogs; there are mainly 2 methods:

URL indicates date and/or title post, the most popular method, but the problem is funny: I can’t access to my posts through a proxy/firewall stupidly configured, where the words ’sex’, ‘fuck’, ’suck’, … are censored. As I don’t […]

Getting rid of spam comments

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Porn, viagra, casino, and some words I don’t understand… I got more than 70 within a week! Fortunately, the WordPress keywords filter removed most of them, but it’s not enough, since the database size strangely increased. I am using a new method: denying spam robots with .htaccess file.
According to the WordPress site, you should […]


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