Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.
Month: October 2012
How to Fix and Cleanup the TimThumb Hack in WordPress
So if you remember correctly, there was a security issue with the TimThumb script in August which was fixed. However still to our surprise, many sites are still using the old version. We have fixed three sites so far in the past month, one being yesterday. So it makes sense to simply write a step […]
Cleaning Up the TimThumb Hack
Several of my websites were hacked this week using the TimThumb exploit. The issue has been known for a couple weeks now.
Hook System with PHP
I was recently coding a web-application base in PHP and it occurred to me that including a hooking system won’t be a bad idea. I like the way hooks are used in wordpress for almost every task. Implementing a hook system makes the application more flexible and modular, all with a small bit of code.
Pinterest Dynamic Grid Layout and Design Inspirations
Dynamic Grid is one of the hottest page layout we can easily seen in web industry. As you can see, this phenomena is caused by the rising star – Pinterest which allow us to pin our favourite photo and share it in our pinboard. The whole sharing process is painless and pretty fast.
Disk Benchmark ATTO
As the industry’s leading provider of high-performance storage connectivity products, ATTO has created a widely-accepted Disk Benchmark freeware utility to help measure storage system performance. Disk Benchmark identifies performance in hard drives, solid state drives, RAID arrays as well as connections to storage.