Recent Entries

Rss Feed

Archive for the 'Software' Category

Next Page »

BSQ Sitestats 2.2.2 Stability Release

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Fixed:
-Possible security issue requiring register globals off
-Possible XSS attack with referrers.
All users are advised to upgrade to this stability release.
http://forge.joomla.org/sf/go/projects.bsq_sitestats/frs.bsq_sitestats_component.com_bsq_sitestats_2_2_2

Trac - Developer management as it should be

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Technologies are changing so quickly around us that it’s hard to find and integrate good software before its replacement has gone mainstream. For this reason, I’m always on the prowl for what’s new and hot.
A couple days ago, I was checking up on the status of Wordpress 2.1, which is supposed to have exciting new […]

Gretzky shoots, Akismet saves

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Not sure about you other Wordpress bloggers, but my Akismet plugin (ships with Wordpress) catches 99% of the spam that I get, which is ~70/day. I like how it also whitelists people who have already been approved for comments. I guess somebody could post a legit comment and then post a bunch of spam. Shhhhhhh.
How […]

BSQ Sitestats 2.2.0 Alpha is available

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Another release of BSQ Sitestats is in the works. Please try out all of the new features and report back at our forums.
New:
+Added ability to pad total stats.
+Added more safety to the BSQ Sitestats includes.
+Added the ability to only track user hits. This is useful if you only care about registered users’ hits.
+Added the ability […]

BSQ Sitestats has joined the war on spam

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I was planning on freezing BSQ Sitestats for the upcoming 2.2.x release, but I started getting attacked by porn spammers last week on my demo site. NOT COOL. Battling scripts with custom SQL commands is no fun, so I came up with a few different solutions that you will all enjoy:
Banned Referrer Words
Most of the […]


Next Page »