I’ve not got much done these last few days due to a stomach bug that got the better of me (which is not usually the case!).
Thankfully I’m on the road to recovery now 
Stomach Bug
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Category Archives: General
CSS Search Engine
With the launch of Google‘s Custom Search Engine, I decided to create a search engine specifically for CSS.
Link: CSS Search Engine.
Upgrades
Today I upgraded Wired Vision’s copy of WordPress and Mint. Fortunately neither were too difficult. In fact, it took all of 20 minutes or so, to do both 
Unfortunately, I still have several other scripts that have yet to be upgraded. Namely vBulletin (x2) and ArticleLive. That’s one drawback about running several sites 
I’m pretty sure the vBulletin upgrades will go smoothly as I haven’t installed many plugins and haven’t hacked any of the code at all. Plus the fact that Jelsoft have put plenty of work into the upgrade process.
ArticleLive on the other hand is going to be a handful I had to do some extensive hacking of the source code to make Web Design Point standards compliant (even with it’s templating system!). This means I’m going to have to upgrade my local copy first, make all the neccesary changes (which will probably take a week minimum!) and then upgrade online using the changes made locally. Ugh!
Going fishing… err… I mean Surfing!
Come the 25th of this month, myself and a few friends are heading to Bundoran, Co. Donegal to go surfing I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve never surfed before. I’m sure it’s not going to be easy, even with my previous skateboarding experience. I just hope I don’t look too silly in the wetsuit
Better Site Security Needed!
One of the websites I administer got hacked today. I’m not sure how they managed it because the password wasn’t easy to guess being an alpha numerical one. That’s not to say that my password was their way in, it might have been the server, the script running on the site or something else entirely. Thankfully the person that hacked it wasn’t very malicious. All they did was upload an index file overwriting the current index file, so it was easy to get the site back online.
Time for me to evaluate my site(s) security and to make sure all patches, upgrades, etc are all in place!