Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/
A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of WordPress. Getting […]

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A pretty nifty blog post entitled Why PHP Won lists 4 main points as to why the adoption of PHP for most Web projects today outpaces those built on Perl CGI.
You can read the post Why PHP Won here:

http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-php-won.html

I also begin with Perl CGI/FastCGI on my first major project. I haven’t worked in that environment […]

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Magento currently does not sort category products and any product listing for that matter by Newest (highest entity_id). Since my store works best when showing fresh products we felt it necessary to have our Magento installation sort by newest product first (descending) so that just by clicking through categories, users would be seeing the latest […]

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Smashing Magazine the online resource for all types of stuff has a post pp called:

Joomla Developer’s Toolbox

It’s a nice post listing most of the Joomla resources you’d end up encountering while development a Joomla site. Here’s a quick excerpt from the post:
Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be […]

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If you’d like to check your loaded extensions on a Linux machine, create a PHP file with this line:
print_r(get_loaded_extensions());
If the file where named print_extensions.php, save and run your file from the command line:
php print_extensions.php
That’s it. This is how you can check the extensions loaded on your Linux server.

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If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line:

echo $SHELL

To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter the following to change your shell:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

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Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528

In order to add Google transactions tracking to my osCommerce store I needed to edit both the checkout_success.php and footer.php files. I edited both these files because I’m already using Google […]

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There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that a few settings are correctly configured.
The primary issue is that even after setting up the […]

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There’s been huge issues with Flash 9 and embedded flash videos either not playing at all or playing without sound. This problem is sometimes associated with Firefox not playing video sounds, YouTube embedded videos not playing, and with Flash 9 itself.
There’s some fixes out there requireing updates to the registry, updates to the Flash player […]

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Updating shipping options have some specials rules due to it being a custom module. I’ve listed the text below from the module’s README file for further reading.
Updating shipping methods require the following steps.
Uninstall Table Rate Shipping Module (in Admin)
=> open up the admin at www.domain.com/badminton/
=> select Modules => select Shipping
=> select Shipping Table Rate
=> select […]

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