Why me? Sometimes you may wonder why a hacker would care about your little dinky site. Maybe you own a local business, maybe you just run a blog on cats, maybe you have a hobby for collecting animal stamps and run a forum for animal stamp enthusiasts? It doesn’t matter. What drives MOST hacks is actually […]
The short answer is that Base64 can be a code obfuscator, a potential a code-envelope, or an digit shrinker. The good news is that although it does involve math, there are plenty of online tools to do all the repetitive boring stuff (what computers are good at). First, let’s looks at what is so magical about 64.
When you construct a database, you often have to make decisions based on incomplete information. Oftentimes you’re given a small subset of data and you have to decide what kind of datatype goes where, how entities naturally link to each other and when to denormalize.
There’s one debate when it comes to building out tables for databases and that’s what do you use as the key.
Mandatory LCD Color Lesson One of the first thing you learn about how pixels on LCD screens work is that almost every color you are looking at is essentially a lie, a visual trick. When you think you see a purple colored button on a light orange background, you’re actually just seeing different concentrations of thousands of […]
PHP: Get serious? PHP is quirky. It’s that odd cousin that no one really admits to being related to (Sorry cousin Rupert). It’s also very simple. It’s interpreted, not compiled, it’s got non-serious function names like implode and as a result, some think it’s not serious. People don’t REALLY think PHP isn’t a serious language, after all it runs a LOT of […]
Coming from a C# background, moving from an elegant strongly-typed powerful language like C# to a mish-mash feels-like-its-cobbled-together language like PHP was both frustrating and liberating. And the hardest part wasn’t even the syntax. It was tools.
If you’re using custom fields on a custom post type in WordPress. How do you show ALL instances of that custom field for multiple items? How about showing the custom field for ALL the items? There are two ways to do this.