yon Leveron blog

http://goodphp.mirrors.phpclasses.org/package/4896-PHP-Create-and-parse-Torrent-files.html

Good stuff, and a very friendly author as well ! Merci, Adrien . . .

* @author   Adrien Gibrat <adrien.gibrat@gmail.com>
* @copyleft 2010 – Just use it!
* @license  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License version 3
* @version  Release: 1.0

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Good bits, am looking into his own apps on this site, the LiveVisits and WorldMap items.

The API is pretty neat also and I believe it’s probably used by a number of folks to power other neat items.

http://www.infosniper.net/script-partner.php?lang=1

I of course am not looking to do anything dastardly, but I do like the cool map ability widget on the right side of the blog here, via http://www.revolvermaps.com/?target=enlarge&i=jIK2ncaMpa

I also like the detailed reporting that appears to be available via http://www.php-web-statistik.de/ – I’m looking for the ability to host all of this locally on my own mysql instances, of course, to avoid having data elsewhere that may go down / away for some reason.

More research needed, first emails sent off.

RT @securitypro2009: PHPSecInfo – Security Information About PHP Environment | Web … http://bit.ly/NYyHb

PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards. You can read the PHP Security Guide they have published.

(more at top right link)

This is not some sort of challenge for crackers with too much time on their hands.  But in installing all of this good WordPress stuff, I’ve been trying to make it not only quick and functional, but relatively secure.

I’ll detail some of the steps, and come back and update this as I go.

PhpMyAdmin. Pretty essential.

WordPress latest code, to begin your install.  Of course!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress before you actually install anything?  Please.

WordPress › Free WordPress Themes to make it look purty, and whatnot.

There are tons and tons (literally, if each pages was only an “ounce”) of things about WP out there. http://www.marketing.fm/2009/08/02/great-wordpress-plugins-i-use/ etc.

It’s amazing enough that there are things like Camps for this http://central.wordcamp.org/

Well met friends. Like all of the cool kids, I too wanted to blog. OK, perhaps just trying to be cool.  Or a kid. Or something.

Not that there will be astounding wisdom here (though I’ll post close approximations from others) but it’s both a technological process (learn-to-RUN-the-blog), and fun.

Sure, I could be smart and host this ready-made on someone else’s wonderful, free, pre-rolled spot.  But noooo, that’d be much too easy; no .com for me, I hit the .org to get into both the nit and the grit.  I need to dive into the php, and config files, and mysql don’t y’know.

Anyway, I feel sure this’ll be a great excuse to quit thinking about optimizing mod_rewrite sections (though Apache does rock).  Browsing the DH wiki has been a useful start in the learning, as has Google of course, plus the WP site itself.  API keys, oh my.

I’m sure lots of the tech will filter over into this, as well as the usual pithy comments. I’ll try to toss a gem out there every now and then of course, to help your nerves. As well as a few random movie quotes.

¡Cheers!