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Goals for the remainder of this year

Friday, April 17th, 2009

At work this week we were asked to list out some goals for the year. While thinking about what to write down, I searched the Web for some inspiration. I ended up pretty happy with my results, and fortunately for me, most of my work-related goals are also personal goals.

I realize we’re already four months into 2009, but I thought I’d go ahead and write a post to list out some goals. It’ll not only help me to remember them, but maybe I’ll get some tips on completing them in the comments. (more…)

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New year, new host, new software

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Hello from the year 2009.

In November, my hosting provider notified me that there’d been some data compromizes affecting my site. As best I can tell, this involved htaccess redirects that caused links on my site to instead send traffic to malware “anti-virus” sites. They said they’d fixed it and that I only needed to worry if I’d been using a Windows machine to FTP into my site during a certain time period. I use Linux, so I was not concerned. However, I did do some googling to find out more about what happened and found others blaming the host itself for poor security. (more…)

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How To: Yahoo and the Simple OpenID PHP Class

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

[Note: This post contains outdated information. Please visit the project page here for the latest information.]

I’ve been working on OpenID a lot lately and I’ve latched on to a great starter PHP class called, obviously enough, Simple OpenID PHP Class (Simple OpenID). It’s easy enough to implement, but I quickly noticed that it didn’t work with Yahoo (among others). Basically it would return an error saying it couldn’t find an OpenID server at Yahoo. (more…)

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