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WordPress 2.3.2 Urgent Security Release

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Tyler
on December 29, 2007
in Internet, Open Source and WordPress
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The WordPress folks have released WordPress 2.3.2, describing it as an urgent security release. This latest version fixes a bug that can be exploited to display your draft posts. Some changes have also been made to prevent certain error messages from giving away more information about your database than they need to. I would strongly advise that WordPress users install 2.3.2 ASAP.

WordPress 2.3.2 includes a new feature to allow you to customize the error page that’s displayed when WordPress can’t connect to your database. You can see the full list of changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, you can also see which bugs are fixed in WordPress 2.3.2.

Head over to the 2.3.2 announcement post on the Dev Blog for the full story on WordPress 2.3.2. If you don’t care about any of that, you can just head straight to the download.

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MySQL Cheatsheet By Example

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Tyler
on December 24, 2007
in Internet, Linux, Open Source and Personal
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Tech-Evangelist has put together an excellent cheatsheet for MySQL. There’s lots of other MySQL cheatsheets out there, but this one is unique in the fact that it gives examples of usage rather than just snippets of code.

This cheatsheet also includes a summary of commonly used MySQL data types, which will be really helpful to me. I can’t tell you how many times in a week I hit the MySQL website looking for specs on a certain data type.

If you think this cheatsheet would be useful to you, head on over to Tech-Evangelist to download the PDF.

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Using .aspx With IIS 5.0

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Tyler
on October 26, 2007
in Asides, Internet, Personal and Work
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I’m posting this here mostly so I can refer back to it later if I ever have the need to. I recently had to setup a Windows server running IIS 5.0 at work. It will be hosting a web application that will be used to verify all orders.

Anyway, I had IIS up and running but couldn’t get it to execute pages with a .aspx extension. It would just offer up the .aspx file for download instead of executing it and displaying in the browser. Turns out this is due to the ASP.NET ISAPI extension not being registered with IIS. To register the extension with IIS, open a command prompt and issue the following commands:

  1. cd C:\winnt\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727
  2. aspnet_regiis -i

In that example, I registered the ASP.NET 2.0 framework with IIS. If you want to use a different version of .NET, replace v2.0.50727 with whatever version you want to use. The various versions installed will be listed in the C:\winnt\Microsoft.Net\Framework\ folder.

After running the apsnet_regiis command, my .aspx files loaded right away. I discovered all this at the Channel9 MSDN forums.

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I’m Addicted To Halo 3

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Tyler
on October 11, 2007
in Games, Internet, Personal and Xbox
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I’ve been playing a lot of Halo 3 lately. I have yet to finish the campaign on Heroic or Legendary, but I have completed the campaign on normal. I’d say it took me roughly 8 hours of playing to finish on normal, but I did a lot of exploring around the levels.

After I beat the campaign on normal, I started in on multiplayer on Xbox Live. That may have been a mistake, multiplayer on Xbox Live is horribly addictive. It’s not just the online gameplay that’s addictive though, the ability to watch movies of yourself playing is equally, if not more addicting.

Halo 3 records video of all the games you play, weather it’s an online multiplayer game or a single player campaign. You can watch all your videos and choose which ones to save in the Theater, the place in Halo 3 where you can access all sorts of Halo 3 media.

Death on SnowboundOne really neat feature is the ability to take screenshots from your movies. So, if you had an awesome looking kill or something else that you want to remember forever, you can take a screenshot of it and it’ll be sent to your Bungie.net profile for you to download and save later. I’ve been saving all my screenshots and uploading them to Flickr for permanent storage. You can have a look at them here, under my Halo 3 tag at Flickr. The quality of the screenshots is pretty good, they’ve all got a resolution of 1536 x 1152.

My Spartan As Of 10/11/2007Another cool new feature is custom armor for your Spartan or Elite multiplayer character. You can choose from roughly seven different armor styles. You can set different styles for your helmet, left shoulder, right shoulder, and chest plate. The Halo 3 Player Model Generator site lets you see what your Spartan or Elite would look like with all the available types of armor. According to that site, there’s 187,947,000 different armor combinations possible in Halo 3. Some of the Armor styles on that site are available only to Bungie employees, such as the “Flaming helmet” chest plate. Supposedly, using this chest plate makes the players helmet appear to be engulfed in flames. Seems like it’d make a nice sniper target to me…

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Unwakeable: The Future And WordPress 2.3

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Tyler
on October 9, 2007
in Internet, Noteworthy, Open Source, PHP, Personal, Unwakeable and WordPress
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I’ve waited far too long to post an update on Unwakeable 2.0 and it’s status, so here it is, almost. First, I’d like to address the issues with the current Unwakeable release (version 1.2.1) and WordPress 2.3. There’s a few issues, although most of them are fairly minor.

1. Tags: Unwakeable 1.2.1 does not support the new tagging system in WordPress 2.3. If you’re using the new tagging system, your tags will not be displayed. Ultimate Tag Warrior still works just fine with Unwakeable 1.2.1 and WordPress 2.3.

2. Prototype: Livesearch (and probably rolling archives) don’t work with WordPress 2.3. I really have no idea why, it’s probably a combination of a few things. One major contributor is probably the fact that WordPress 2.3 likes jQuery instead of Prototype, and Unwakeable relies heavily on Prototype for it’s ajax effects, such as livesearch, rolling archives, and live commenting. I only use livesearch, so I can’t say for certain if rolling archives and live commenting were truly broken. All I know is Firefox CPU usage skyrockets when loading this site when livesearch is enabled.

3. Archives Page: The archives page is slightly broken, it displays an error similar to this at the top:

WordPress database error: [Table 'tlongren_wordpress.wp_categories' doesn't exist]

That happens because Unwakeable 1.2.1 doesn’t know about the new taxonomy schema in WordPress 2.3. WordPress 2.3 does away with three tables, categories, post2cat, and link2cat. Those tables are replaced by three new tables that, when combined, offer much greater flexibility in handling post categories and blogroll categories. I think this new schema handles tags as well.

4.Tag Archives: This may be unique to this site, I haven’t tested, but whenever you try to visit a tag archive (my unwakeable tag archive for example), a 404 is received. Obviously, it should display all the posts with the given tag. Can anyone using Unwakeable 1.2.x confirm this is also broken on their WordPress 2.3 site?

5. Unknowns: There’s probably lots of broken things I’m not aware of. K2 Sidebar Modules may very well be one of them. I really doubt they work 100% because they make some use of categories. If you’ve got anything I’ve missed, please let me know about it so I can make sure it’s working in Unwakeable 2.0. One thing that DOES work that I entirely expected to be broken are the category archives. I was ready for all sorts of errors when trying to view a category archive, like the Unwakeable category archive, but they display exactly as they did with WordPress 2.2.x. Please let me know if you’re aware of any other incompatibilities between Unwakeable 1.2.x and WordPress 2.3.
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WordPress Theme: Unwakeable 1.2.1

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Tyler
on September 4, 2007
in Internet, Noteworthy, PHP, Personal, Security, Unwakeable and WordPress
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I hadn’t planned on releasing another version of Unwakeable in the 1.x series, yet here it is. The release of Unwakeable 1.2.1 was prompted after the discovery of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Unwakeable search functions.

The vulnerability makes it possible for people to run malicious code that could, for example, steal all the cookies from your domain. You can download Unwakeable 1.2.1 from the official Unwakeable page. There are no new features in Unwakeable 1.2.1. The only difference between 1.2 and 1.2.1 is the fix for the XSS vulnerability.

If you’re already using version 1.2 and don’t want to bother upgrading, I’ve put together a post describing the steps to take to patch the vulnerability in Unwakeable 1.2.

I apologize for the inconvenience and please let me know if you have any issues with Unwakeable 1.2.1.

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