Archive for: April, 2005

updated flickr gallery wordpress plug-in

Monday, April 25th, 2005, 10:40 am
Filed under: Code, WordPress

Well, it seems there’s some interest (at least from fellow Dreamhosters) in my updates to the PHP flickr gallery plug-in for WordPress. Basically, all I did was replace the remote fopen() calls with libcurl calls. The original plug-in was written by Ramon Darrow and can be downloaded here. Thanks to Ramon for making it available [...]

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remote fopen(), R.I.P.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005, 3:55 pm
Filed under: Code

Well, my ISP decided to disable remote fopen() calls in PHP today. I can see why, considering it’s a pretty big security hole in PHP.
Looks like I had my hosting account’s e-mail notifications set to only the highest priority (why this wasn’t high priority, I have no idea /boggle), so I didn’t see the original [...]

it lives!

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005, 12:16 pm
Filed under: General

“Wait a minute,” you say. “He’s actually updated his site? Impossible!”
Yes, after 6 years (!) of the old green, white, and black, I’ve finally redone my site. Well, truth be told, I had a little help from WordPress 1.5. Great little blogging app, and quite customizable. I was suitably impressed the first time I used [...]