Archive for March, 2007
Nice little on-line application
I came across this today
At first I didn’t think there was anything revolutionary about it, but when I read the comments asociated with the post that brought me to it, I realised it’s potential.
On-Line photo editing suite
It’s free, very easy to use and a fast method for those often time consuming tweaks we have to perform on graphics to make them more aesthetically pleasing.
Beta Version
It’s new, and we are in test mode, and all features are currently available. looks like some of these will be lost when the full package is released. Never-the-less, the functions that look like remaining are worth consideration in there own right.
Rounded corners
I for one love this kind of app, just makes the job easy,
Add Border
Inner and outer borders, very nice feature, comes with hex. colour input, so there is no messing trying to match shades.
Loads of other more standard stuff
Crop, resize, sepia, black and white etc.
I think it’s main potential lies in the situation that occurs when a site for a client has been designed, and you the designer hand over the reins.
The site as your project, you have become immersed in, and know intimately is out there.
Don’t break the layout
Thus far I havn’t faced this scenario, but I imagine the situation is likely to occur when a graphic is uploaded to a site that exceeds the containg div’s dimensions, things will burst, folks will not be happy your design did not automatically compensate.
To the future and beyond my kindred.
March 31st, 2007
Just reading through a few e-mail news/web dev articles, when I came across this post on SitePoint Forums.
I decided to post this link just for the fun of it, some interesting comments along the way.Enjoy:
March 25th, 2007
Trials and tribulations
Read part 1 and part 2
With the recent upgrade release of wordpress, version. 2.1.1, a security hole has been found.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.
This is the kind of thing you pray never happens, but it did and now we’re dealing with it as best we can. Although not all downloads of 2.1.1 were affected, we’re declaring the entire version dangerous and have released a new version 2.1.2 that includes minor updates and entirely verified files. We are also taking lots of measures to ensure something like this can’t happen again, not the least of which is minutely external verification of the download package so we’ll know immediately if something goes wrong for any reason.
More from the wordpress blog
So it was a little annoying, as I had recently installed the new version and was working on the site I have been describing in the last couple of posts. I considered taking a chance with the installation, but in the end I couldn’t justify it.
The upgrade
Retracing my steps. Fortunately and only a fairly recent habit was to note my progress, so I had the info at hand to play with.
Fired up blix again, for the base, old habits etc, used one of the new features of wordpress to create static home page. Pages not showing. Fix mentioned previously.
Using another destination for all posts, I ended up with two home page links. The static one just created and the default. This as mentioned in an earlier post was due to the nature of the blix special functions, so I had to modify the code a little more.
I also took out this little section of the nav code, as I assumed the static page feature would take care of the pathways:
Check graphic below:
I deleted the highlighted section, and things seem to be going ok again.
March 11th, 2007
Rachel brings out album no.2
Well the hard work is over the album recorded and produced.
I have almost finished updating the website ready for the domain transfer in the next month or so. See previous post.
Site moved to dreamhost, all went well, just a few additions over the next few weeks to add some dynamics to the site Rachels site:
You should check it out:
March 6th, 2007
March 3rd 2007
Almost missed this one, and I’m usually so on the ball when it comes to cosmological phenomenon.
Just chlling watching a bit of telly, and Jo says hay you know there is an eclipse happening.
The pics arn’t the best,, I’ll blame it on the fact that I was unprepared.
For more info check here
March 5th, 2007
