Earlier in the week I published a list of my Essential WordPress Plugins. There is a new user experience change that has come to YouTube. Window boxing, the black bars that appear above and below, will no longer appear on videos that have higher aspect ratios. Unfortunately it can’t do anything for your crappy vertical…
No original content from me this week. Next week I will have a post about the WordPress plugins that I always use in my website builds. Krebs on Security has a post about how Google requires physical security keys, little usb drives, to prevent Phishing on work accounts. Maybe this is something that could have…
Client 101 I started off the week with a little Client 101. How not to give complete control of your domain to your web developer. If you missed it you can read it here. Phone SIM Card Swapping More and more the smart phone has become the center of our lives. That might be why…
Haven’t done one of these in a while but since it is Friday the 13th I thought I would scare everyone with my prose and thoughts. On Monday if you saw my post one of my client’s website was under a brute force login attack. It started at 5:42 am CST and didn’t finish until…
It’s been a little while since I wrote one of these and once again I want to talk about security. If you have a WordPress site than the hackers want in. They are interested in co-opting your site for their own interests. Whether it is to run their own programs or redirect you to their…
Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. That was the message WordPress was giving me. I had done something stupid. I was impatient and navigated away from the update page while it was working. I didn’t panic. I was sure I was not the first person using WordPress to have this problem…
A few weeks ago the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox Quantum. It’s about time! Firefox has been around since 2003 as the successor to Netscape Navigator. If you remember the Browser Wars of the late 90’s you will recall Microsoft Internet Explorer and Navigator battled it out for how people would view the web. Web developers…
Last year the Windows 10 Anniversary Update introduced a Linux Bash Shell running Ubuntu 14. I was trying it as a LAMP environment to do development in a local environment. It was good but incomplete and did not allow me to run Laravel. Fast forward to 2017 and the Windows 10 Creators Update has a…
I have been using Wappalyzer for a while now. It’s a little cross-browser and cross-platform plugin that allows you to see what technology a website is using. This comes in handy as a developer in being able to see what content management system a site is using but that is just the beginning. It will…
A few weeks ago when talking to a client for who I develop an internal web application he mentioned they wanted to start collecting analytics on the users. I use Google Analytics on all of my web sites but I wasn’t sure about using it on a web application that was not public. I was…