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I’ll repeat it WordPress is not a CMS, its a Blog. Its a different issue that it is flexible enough to be used as a CMS. The reason I am using it is because I want a blog not a CMS and I love it because because its the best Blogging software out there. If […]

Update: My sincere apologies to all the plugin developers. I usually try to keep track of WordPress security. and buyacrop has been very good at finding exploits and providing patches. In my hurry to warn users I forgot to check if patches were available or if the developers were informed. I think its pretty irresponsible […]

The Wordpress Plugin Competition is in full swing. I found an interesting Plugin by OZ called Who Sees Ads.
The Plugin Aims to do the following things.

don’t serve ads to your fans (returning readers)
serve ads to people coming for the first time
serve ads to people coming from a search engine result page
serve ads on old […]

Shufflestorm has found a interesting thing in the latest version of Window live messenger 8.5 beta if you look at the properties for the build (Right click the Exe file and Select Properties then select the version tab), it has been named as WLSuite.exe. Another interesting fact is all the three products i.e. Windows Live […]

Update: Note that this SQL Inject “Exploit” can only work if the attacker has obtained a valid username and password for your blog. Otherwise the login check which is run before the $max_results var is used will stop the attack.
Thanks to westi for the Info
Looks like a SQL injection exploit in the XML-RPC has been […]

Microsoft and Facebook have announced a partnership deal. This comes right after Facebook opened up its API to third party developers. The Facebook platform is already available in the new mashup tool Popfly that Microsoft announced a week back. Microsoft has also released some walkthrough videos and a Developer Toolkit for Facebook on its site. […]

The super light JavaScript framework Moo Tools 1.1 has been released, apart from the complete revamp of the site the documentations and demos page has been updated. This time they went with a darker shade for their website redesign. One of my frequent complaints was the lack of demos, with Moo Tools 1.1 they have […]

Devlounge has started an excellent series of articles on how to write Wordpress plugins. If you are a web developer with sufficient knowledge of PHP and have been using WordPress then head over there to read it.
For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. WordPress Plugins
allow those with little to no programming skills to extend […]

SilverLight has launched its community site with a list of blogs and a Forum. Dare found a really cool Silverlight Poster which shows how and what the silverlight framework is built of. It shows the list of class libraries from the .Net Framework which make up silverlight. Click the picture below to see the full […]

You might have noticed that the Blogsphere and Tech news is abuzz with news about the various announcements that Microsoft made regarding Silverlight at MIX ‘07. I think the best explanation of what Silverlight is given in this really well written article on Techcrunch.
Here’s a brief run down from Liveside if you don’t want to […]