Upgrade WordPress now

Posted by John Minnihan - 07/03/07 at 03:03:49 pm

If you run WordPress and have upgraded to 2.1.1 over the past few days, you should immediately read the post below from the WP team and take appropriate action:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/ 

Briefly, the WordPress site got jacked and some cracker(s) inserted an exploit directly into the 2.1.1 package.  To their credit, they have announced it, created a fix, and have implemented some security controls in an effort to prevent this from occurring again.

From a personal perspective, I have to deal with these crackers every day.  Each day, there are hundreds of attempts to jack into freepository.  So far – knock on wood – no one has cracked the site.

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The Pilot and the Dog

Posted by John Minnihan - 06/03/07 at 12:03:47 pm

A woman was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.

Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. The man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.

He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, “Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?” The blind lady replied, “No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs.”

Picture this:

All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog!

The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!

THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR.

from a funny email I rec’vd this morning from my best friend… my wife

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Freepository Adds RadRails Support

Posted by John Minnihan - 02/03/07 at 06:03:10 pm

We’re pleased to add another IDE to the list of officially supported direct clients

RadRails - http://www.radrails.org

Radrails is built on the Eclipse tool foundation, and as such, provides the same connectivity as Eclipse itself. Your Freepository Silver Account SVN repository may be accessed in Radrails by simply adding a new SVN Repository in the SVN Repository Exploring perspective. When prompted for the SVN URL, type in your Silver account SVN URL like this:

https://svn.freepository.com/[your-account-id]

This is the same URL that you will find in your admin menu when you login to Freepository. Be sure not to use your Trac URL – that one has ‘-web’ on the end of it.

To register for Freepository Silver Edition, go to the registration page and select the Silver Plan.

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SVN PROPFIND Errors

Posted by John Minnihan - 02/03/07 at 09:03:30 am

If you’re reading this, you probably know that Freepository began offering integrated SVN & Trac accounts on January 1st of this year. We have many, many members, and as a result, the service gets put through numerous use cases every day. Most of these we’ve considered, modeled and designed to or around. Occasionally we encounter a new one.

Continue reading SVN PROPFIND Errors…

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Freepository UI Redesign Project

Posted by John Minnihan - 01/03/07 at 04:03:07 pm

The next major redesign of the Freepository is in the planning stage now. The focus of this release, tentatively scheduled for early May 2007, is ripping out as much of the legacy CGI as possible and replacing it with asynchronous calls to either the database or the repository server.

Ajax? Yeah. But please don’t start shouting web 2.0 or any of the other silly-sexy terms being thrown around by every dime-store startup CEO that walks past. The core application will remain rock-solid on-demand source control, defect & issue tracking, release management and wikis. We’ll apply the UI elements where it makes sense, but where old-school is still best… we’ll be partying like it’s 1999…

If you’re a software developer, you’ll like what we have planned.

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