An unfinished copy of BellaBiblio somehow got online. If you downloaded it by accident please replace it with the older copy until the new release is finished.

fanbase3 has been virtually ready for release for a couple of months now and I’m sick of waiting around on the beta testers who promised they’d get back to me within a couple of days (and didn’t). If you’re a long-time user of phpfanbase and want to test out an upgrade, or you’re looking for… read full entry »

Because you can never know too much, and it’s about time I wrote a follow-up to my PHP Script Checklist article. 1. Never include sensitive data in a .inc When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was move all of the database connection details (yes, that includes passwords) from… read full entry »

Usually if I don’t have the time to review a script I advise people to Google for security issues. Except, with the recent problem surrounding the false reports of a login issue with my scripts, it’s becoming more and more apparent that we can’t rely on only Google. Amongst good advice (of which there is… read full entry »

Some little asswipe sent in a vulnerability report to securityfocus.com (the same site Amelie had faux report problems with; which just happens to mirror to thousands of blogs and security websites across the Internet) claiming that there’s a login issue in BellaBiblio and BellaBook/BellaBuffs (he couldn’t make his mind up with that one) making them… read full entry »

One of the things that I find most annoying about myself is my inability to concentrate on a long term goal, or work on a project over a series of months. It’s not that I have issues seeing things through because I do eventually get there, just that I find it a huge struggle to… read full entry »

When I said a while back that I was planning on redoing my CMS, I thought it’d take me forever to even get ’round to thinking about it (partly because of workload, partly because I didn’t know what I want to do with my site). However, the surge of comments on my free t-shirt post… read full entry »

Anyone had problems with WordPress 2.2.1? I upgraded Karl’s blog and now he can’t post properly and there’s a fatal error in the admin panel. Grr!

Using one of my Bella- scripts? Let me know :)

One of the biggest problems with being an arrogant sod is that sometimes I get over-confident and cocky. This becomes a particularly bad habit when I’m using that cockiness to inform other people; highlighted just this week by my script ‘analysis’ of LittleWallOButtons. Unless I’m particularly unsure about whether or not I could be wrong,… read full entry »