Anything and everything development related
By popular request I have updated my Query Child Of plugin to support limiting the number of child pages returned (and to support the ability for this limit to be offset).
The plugin is also now hosted on WordPress.org Extend as PJW Query Child Of and I have also writen up some example php code so as to make it really easy to use!
“If you want to make money in the open-source world then you need to think of the code you give away for free, and the community interaction you make as an on-going job interview.”
During a discussion on #wordpress-dev this evening I came up with the following oneliner for generating links to phpdocumenter output based on function name to support a php.net like lookup solutions:
curl "http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/trunk/li_WordPress.html" | grep "wp_list_pages" | sed "s/^.*'\(.*\)'.*'.*'.*$/http:\/\/phpdoc.wordpress.org\/trunk\/\1/"
It needs some optimisation though. It’s too long to tweet!
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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