Disclosure: SQL Injection in Cart66 Pro
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Last month I discovered a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the no-longer-developed yet still actively used Cart66 Pro plugin for WordPress. Here are the details …
Technology
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Introducing Secure Updates for WordPress
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Today I introduce the a new plugin that provides secure updates for WordPress: DGXPCO.
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The Value of Repetition
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Repetition is the key to memorizing and becoming an expert in almost anything.
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Software Vulnerabilities, Disclosure, and Marketing
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Consumers have a certain amount of upgrade fatigue. It’s not uncommon for end users to ignore an update notification for months to avoid the frustration that comes with trying to fix something that worked before the update.
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Private Variables in JavaScript
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ES6 gave us classes and object inheritance in JavaScript. However, it’s still missing any concept of “privacy” in OO terms. Here’s a hacky workaround to, maybe, make things work.
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Deterministic Random Numbers in PHP
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Testing code that leverages random numbers can be tricky. It’s useful to have a way to subvert the random number generator during tests to yield a deterministic state.
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Mocking Time in Unit Tests
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Some operations in PHP introduce uncertainty around your code’s behavior. In those situations, it’s helpful to insert helper functions that make your code more reliable and easier to test.
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Twitter in Decline
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Twitter was groundbreaking. But now the ground that Twitter stands upon can use some breaking of its own.
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Strict Typing
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Do you use type information in your PHP code? What drove you to make the change (or what is preventing you from taking the jump)?
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Building a Phone Routing System
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In this walkthrough, I build a phone redirection system using Twilio to automatically forward frequent wrong numbers to the business with a support line 2 digits transposed from me.