Author: westi

Talking WordPress in Wales

On By westiIn WordPress3 Comments

On Thursday evening I was privileged enough to be invited to do a presentation about WordPress, the development process and how it can be used as a source of income.  The presentation was part of an event organised by bloc called All Together Now which was organised to promote the benefits of open source software and social media to small businesses in North Wales. I have uploaded the presentation to slideshare and embedded it below for anyone that is interested in the slides.

In the presentation I also gave a demo of the current state of WordPress 2.7 including a live demo of new features like the core updater and plugin installer.

Responsible security releases

On By westiIn Development, Security, Web dev3 Comments

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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