WordPress crack attempt this morning!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

When I got to work and viewed this blog I noticed that Sidebar Widgets was disabled. I thought "That's weird!" When I tried to login to the administration interface I was told that my WordPress database needed upgrading. I thought "That's weird!" Some further investigation revealed that someone managed to upload a ...

SourceForge.net Marketplace spam

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I've been a member of a number of SourceForge projects since 2001 and I can't recall that I've had any previous complaints about their services to the Open Source community, but I've been getting "Turn your skills into cash at SourceForge.net Marketplace" mails for a while now and my annoyance ...

Web design and SimpleSidebar

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I found a suitable initial web design for The Project at Open Source Web Design. That's a really great site! Now I'm learning about layouts in Ruby on Rails. As suggested in the Midnight Oil blog (Beds are burning?) article SimpleSidebar - If you have sidebars, you need this plugin ...