Responsible security releases

It’s great to see that the habari guys are committed to security as well as functionality and are providing security updates for there pre-1.0 software.  It is a pity to see that they don’t disclose much in there security announcements.

For me, responsible open security practises should mean that as well as providing a quick response to security issues you provide enough detail about the issue to your users to allow them to make a judgement call about how important the upgrade is to them.  Do they need to do the upgrade immediately because the issue is easy to exploit or can it wait till the weekend when they have more time to ensure they have a backup and a plan for when the upgrade goes wrong.
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Debugging ajax problems with firebug.

Now WordPress 2.5 RC1 is out it the wild for testing we are receiving some reports of strange problems with some of the ajax functionality in the admin pages so I have prepared a quick tutorial to help people collect the relevant debugging information to help us investigate the problems.

Here is how to prepare:

  1. Install Firefox (if you don’t have it already!)
  2. Install firebug. This is the web debugging tool of choice.
  3. Load up the relevant WordPress admin page that is not working for you.

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Query Child Of $Page – update to make it work for anyone apart from me!

It seems that back in Oct 2006 when I updated my site design to use a simple plugin to automate the page listing all my plugins I managed to zip up a non-working version of the code.  Thanks to Stephen Rider my incompetence has been discover and I have now released an updated version of the plugin which will actually work for other people!  If you have attempted in the past to use my query child of $page plugin and failed please head over to the page and download a working copy.

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eclipse pdt rocks!

Eclipse PDT rocks. My WordPress development environment now has a debugger!

WordPress weekly digests

As part of keeping track of the WordPress 2.4 development cycle I have started a series of WordPress weekly digests over on my other blog.

You can read the first one here: http://westi.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/wordpress-weekly-digest-24th-september-to-30th-september-2007/

Living on the edge

I’m proud to announce that this site is now “living on the edge” – I finally found the time to write a Tag Importer for Bunny’s Technorati Tags which will hopefully make it into the final WordPress 2.3 release (if not the next Beta version).

Well it was about time to start running the my own code.

One of the new features that really sticks out after upgrade is the Plugin update notification – it lets you know when updates to plugins which are downloadable from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ are available and includes a link to the plugin entry for you to download the update.

Open source AJAX webmail client

Just discovered RoundCube a multilingual, skinable IMAP webmail client. With AJAX, XHTML and CSS goodness. Maybe something that can replace my squirrelmail install for remote access to my mailbox.

IE7 – RSS View

ioerror has written a very good review of Windows Vista Beta 1 with a lot of good screen shots.

In his review he talks about the RSS feed support in IE7 beta 1:

One of the big things talked about in Internet Explorer 7 is its support for RSS feeds. Indeed, I found a couple already in the Favorites menu. So I decided to check out the IE Blog, and this is what I got. Obviously the RSS feed support still needs a lot of work, or at least a stylesheet. Hopefully this will develop further before release, or it will be pretty useless.

From: http://www.ioerror.us/2005/08/02/windows-vista-beta-1-review-and-screenshots-part-1/

In the screenshot he has on his site we see Internet Explorer displaying it’s standard pretty view of an XML file but not the nice view of the RSS we expected. I was suprised to see this as the test I had run of this feature against my sites RSS feed had worked ok as can be seen in the following screenshot.

ie7 displaying an rss feed

Looking at the feed returned by the IE blog that ioerror tested with all looks well and so it seems that the detection algorithm is not quite perfected yet – you would have thought however that the IE team would have tested it against there own blog!

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