05 Aug 2015
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Security
WordPress makes up some large percentage of the web. As I’m writing this, web development firms all over the world are churning out WordPress sites for their clients. Some of these installs are vanilla and basic, yet some come with exceedingly complicated plugin/theme combinations. WordPress’ ease of use is a double edged sword. The positive side being a developer may complete a feature rich, member’s only website in one day. The negative being, a multitude of plugins and code snippets written by other developers are included in these projects (other wise they wouldn’t be completed within a day). A good developer will make good choices as to what plugins to use, a novice developer may not be able to tell, and things can become dangerous.
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10 Apr 2015
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Web Development
Update, Pay Attention!
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04 Mar 2015
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Security
Within the same week, my girlfriend and I both found ourselves without phones. Her Galaxy took a soaking in the ladies room, and my late Nexus 5 had ceased to charge despite all repair effort. So now, I find myself with two fresh Nexus 5’s, a white for my girlfriend and a black one for myself, running Android Lolipop 5.0.1
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07 Feb 2015
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Random
Although I’ve not actually been inside yet, I’m on the email list for Sacramento’s Hacker lab. A few weeks ago they put out an email alerting local developers that their new location in Rocklin is hosting an event for Intel’s Realsense 3D camera technology. It’s not really my field, but I love leaning new things, and I love me a good conference, so I applied. A few weeks later I got called up by an event organizer and they were nice enough to grant me a spot.
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