by Darryl Clarke
Google seems to be rolling out an interesting pack of security updates for their sites. The only official announcement I’ve seen is for Gmail, but I’d expect this to come for many other services.
Currently a lot of Google services work fine with https (docs, calendar, blogger.com) but none seem to offer the same default options that Gmail has. Hopefully that will change soon.
Co-incidentally, it may just have something to do with this recent announcement from their Chief Legal Eagle.
by Darryl Clarke
It’s finally alive!
You can read Magaret’s announcement here.
What it is:
‘Moments Like Today’ is a collaborative project that aims to inspire people to post “moments” of their lives in three sections: mornings, afternoons, and evenings.
What I did:
While the concept and design came from Margaret and Myra, the functionality and everything back-end came from me. With some zend framework, some man-handling of APIs from Flickr and Vimeo and a little bit of jQuery fun, the end result (for now) is live.
If you’d like to participate in the project you can visit the Moments Like Today and read the how-to for more information.
by Darryl Clarke
I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected. But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues.
The most recent one was as to why the shorter urls ie: “/index/pants” would not work. It would always complain and blow up that the controller ‘pants’ doesn’t exist. Even though I know for a fact that I want the index controller in the default module and the action ‘pants’… Continue reading ZF Tip: Don’t use ‘index’ as a module name.
by Darryl Clarke
You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook. Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them.
And it goes sort of like this. I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook. This album has the privacy setting “Friends Only” and as you will see if you click the link to the album a few things will happen depending on who you are and whether or not you are logged in to Facebook… Continue reading Don’t Trust Facebook’s Photo Privacy At All
by Darryl Clarke
On my production web server, I’m kind of a crazy fool. I often do things that make people cringe and scream and say “what the hell are you doing?”
One of those said things is doing a distribution upgrade on-the-fly of the OS. Since the installation of my server some three and a half years ago, Debian has had two major releases. My server started with sarge, upgraded to etch, then upgraded again to lenny. Unfortunately this time after 1210 days without rebooting my server I was forced to reboot. That is to say, since I installed my server where it lives it had never been rebooted.
The reboot occurred because the new libc required kernel 2.6. I was still cooking with an old 2.4 kernel. After a pile of apt-get trickery, I got the necessary packages installed and had to reboot. Once the 2.6 kernel was up and running everything else installed without a hitch. I had to track down a few configuration changes with a couple of things, but overall I think the upgrade went smooth and with only a few minutes of downtime. Not bad, I say, not bad.