Archive for July, 2009

Hacked!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Purely by accident, I discovered that a website I run for Balerno Community Council was returning some unpleasant hidden content every time any of its pages was accessed. The content – a list of links to dodgy pharma etc websites – was invisible to browsers, but was only too visible to search engines.
The hack was [...]

You can’t please all the people all of the time…

Monday, July 20th, 2009

…but if you develop mass-market software, you need to please most of them most of the time. If you’re really smart, you can then please the rest of them by providing a mechanism for extensions. Extensions are a way to add in features to a piece of software which appeal to a sub-set of users, [...]

OOo gets OCS

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

We’ll be using the OCS software to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any otherĀ  OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look here
Grateful thanks to the Public Knowledge Project for a great piece of open-source software.