TimThumb Saga Update

Posted by on Aug 8, 2011 in How To, Technology Corner | 0 comments

Here’s a great article about the TimThumb image resizing issue and why we love open source so much. I’ll be pushing out the version 2.0 changes as soon as they’re released.

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WordPress and TimThumb Exploit

Posted by on Aug 3, 2011 in How To, Technology Corner | 0 comments

WordPress and TimThumb Exploit

One of the great things about the WordPress community is the communication between developers and their audience. We use theme warehouses from time to time to provide the base of the templates that we then adapt to our clients’ visual ideas and the folks both at WordPress.Org and the theme warehouses alert the community-at-large with patch and exploit notices when they’re found. It’s open source camaraderie at its best and today I was the recipient of this communal friendliness and and then sought out and patched the TimThumb exploit that was recently found (see info here if...

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WordPress and Security

Posted by on Jun 21, 2011 in Discussion:, How To, Technology Corner | 0 comments

WordPress and Security

We love WordPress — unabashedly! We design and develop in this ever-evolving and maturing application on a regular basis.  It has come SO far over the past decade and, in the remarkable vein of GPL and open-source application development everywhere, there is an enormous community of users, developers and advocates out there that provide encouragement and support. What’s the best part about WordPress?  Its accessibility.  Hands down.  It’s user friendly and simple where it should be and with the release of the 3.x architecture, it has actually taken leaps forward towards...

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Flush DNS: Mac OSX Tip

Posted by on May 18, 2011 in How To, Technology Corner | 0 comments

Flush DNS: Mac OSX Tip

Ever been working on a test site for a while and then went to change the DNS values only to find that your mac is holding onto the placeholder or test environment’s numbers?  Well, here’s the solution:  To flush your dns cache on your local machine, open Terminal and paste this command: dscacheutil -flushcache and then hit enter. If you’re unlucky enough to be on a PC, open your command prompt (search for cmd and it’ll show up) and paste: ipconfig /flushdns and hit enter. Enjoy!

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