Posts made in December, 2009

• Fixing the “Missed Schedule” problem in WordPress

  General Stuff
  

  Ever since the upgrade to WordPress 2.9, I’ve been having a problem in the scheduled posts in WordPress. Everytime I set a post to be scheduled in the future, it used to miss the scheduled time and never get posted. When I checked the status of these posts in the posts admin area, each of [...]

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• PHP Profiling – XHProf

  PHP
  

  XHProf is a heriarcical profiler for PHP originally developed by Facebook and then opensourced. The raw data collection component is implemented in C (as a PHP extension). The reporting/UI layer is all in PHP. It is capable of reporting function-level inclusive and exclusive wall times, memory usage, CPU times and number of calls for each [...]

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• Secure web development, an after thought?

  Programming
  

  Image via Wikipedia When I talk to developers about security in web development, I usually get the answer that the security is taken care by the systems team by securing the server and by using the https protocol. In reality that is just the tip of the iceberg on security. There’s much more you should [...]

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• QT Mobility Contest for Mobile Developers

  General Stuff
  

  Forum Nokia is launching Qt Mobility Contest,  for which the grand prize is a paid trip to the  upcoming Nokia Developer Summit that takes place in summer 2010 in the USA. To take part in this contest you have to create a working example of an application using QT and QT Mobility API. Don’t stop [...]

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