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Live now: FLOSS Weekly 87: Extreme Programming with Kent Beck and Randal Schwartz. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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Patterns in Architecture (courtesy Patterson in IRC) http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- Leo Laporte
Patterns in Programming (the "Gang of Four" book: http://www.amazon.com/Design-...
- Leo Laporte
Kent's Smalltalk Best Practices: http://www.amazon.com/Smallta...
- Leo Laporte
Kent's Implementation Patterns: http://www.amazon.com/Impleme...
- Leo Laporte
Kent Beck, http://threeriversinstitute.org/blog
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
Absolutely, programming is Engineering. All that varies is the scale of the system you're building. Engineering is also both art and science. I worked on the space station at NASA as an engineer, on truck vehicle dynamics at Ford, and software dev for 30 years now, and you could write many volumes on the similarities.
- Ken Sheppardson
Software Engineering
- Chris Heath
See also Systems Engineering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Ken Sheppardson
Also "Systems Architecting: Creating & Building Complex Systems" by Eberhardt Rectin -- http://www.amazon.com/Systems... which among other things goes into design "heuristics", aka patterns in Systems Architecting
- Ken Sheppardson
http://www.paulgraham.com/hp...
- patterson
Those engineering processes with waterfall diagrams and Work Breakdown Structures, however, were developed to handle MASSIVE systems with hundreds or thousands of engineers. I don't know what the software development equivalent of the Apollo Program would be these days...
- Ken Sheppardson
Paul Graham from that talk: "Sometimes what the hackers do is called "software engineering," but this term is just as misleading. Good software designers are no more engineers than architects are. The border between architecture and engineering is not sharply defined, but it's there. It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do, and engineers figure out how to do it. What...
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- Leo Laporte
One of the big differences between big engineering projects and software development is that on engineering projects you often have participants with significantly different agendas and schedules. The guy who does plumbing might be available on these three days, the electrician has to be out on this day or he charges you 2x, the concrete guy wants to overcharge you, etc. You're not all on the same team. So you have to have a predetermined schedule and budget, clear specifications and deadlines, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hey I just discovered this TWIT show... what does FLOSS stand for?
- John Wright
Free Libre and Open Source Software
- Ken Sheppardson
Free Libre and Open Source Software
- Leo Laporte
Jinx!
- Leo Laporte
doh
- Ken Sheppardson
It's still creativity so a shared experience could spark more creativity
- Johnny
Cool, never heard of "Free Libre" but Open Source of course.
- John Wright
Talking about re-factoring with your spouse? that's nearly the funniest thing I've ever heard lol
- John Wright
Libre is a Spanish word meaning free as in liberated (as opposed to cost free)
- Leo Laporte
Is "Free Libre" a term used in software? Or just for this show? Just curious
- John Wright
I only know Turbo Pascal.............. :(
- Johnny
seaside http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- patterson
Errrrrrr........................ That's what she said?
- Johnny
John: It comes from Richard Stallman's comment: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer." -- http://www.gnu.org/philoso...
- Ken Sheppardson
What? So something like this? "If you want to see a list of our guest, click there --> Link"
- Johnny
No, you turn text into hyperlinks, you don't say "Go here" or "Do this"
- Ken Sheppardson
Just like Justin Timberlake... but different.
- Ken Sheppardson
and failing
- Johnny
It's a vote getting thing. People don't understand technology so they want the government to do it for them. The mums and dads don't want to have to learn about filtering (nor do they probably want to monitor their kids) so WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN is a powerful message
- Johnny
We need a consumer-grade ZFS appliance... or some sort of distro...
- Ken Sheppardson
What was the book just mentioned again?
- John Wright
I looked away, but I think Randal was holding up the Smalltalk Best Practices book. But Kent Beck has several http://www.amazon.com/Kent-Be...
- Ken Sheppardson
Ok the book was Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Thanks Ken! http://www.amazon.com/Smallta...
- John Wright
A programming show would be interesting. I really like how Leo is diving into and getting his hands dirty with many areas in tech, even programming. Keep up the good work Leo!
- John Wright
Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And Their Cash Flow Just Went Positive - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"They are now cash flow positive. Yes, from this point forward, Facebook is making money."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Oh goody.....
- Roberto Bonini
Am I the only one who feels this is sort of a Pyrrhic victory, in the sense that an incredibly enormous scale was needed to eek out a profit? It's certainly good news for the long term stability of the company however,
- Ray Cromwell
@Ray, Pyrrhic? I don't really think so. It's a sizable investment, alrite, but if they can maintain real growth without having to invest hugely again, it's a win. Long-term win, but still a win.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
They can't maintain current user growth much longer since the Internet population has limits, so either they have to increase engagement, decrease costs, or come up with a better monetization strategy, it just seems like inefficient to me, and and risky too since alternatives could undermine them at some point, eg Twitter
- Ray Cromwell
from Nambu
You mean, like changing a variable from TWEET_LIMIT = 140 to TWEET_LIMIT = 512? :) I think Facebook Lite, FriendFeed, et al have shown the value of these networks is more in communicating and following rather than social apps. F8 was a great attention getter than separated FB from the pack, but outside of some games, it has taken a backseat to FF/Twitter-like functionality IMHO. And I think the games industry would be better served by a social platform tuned towards the needs of games anyway.
- Ray Cromwell
Plus, by combining WebFinger, PubSubHubBub, FOAF/XFN, and some other stuff, you might be able to totally federate the bulk of what FB and Twitter do today, commoditizing them and stripping down their walled gardens. That's the looming threat.
- Ray Cromwell
A good example of FB's cost reducing efforts is "haystack". Don't worry, we are working on it (:
- Ozgur Demir
Haystack looks cool. Maybe if FB could connect with third party oauth'ed photo hosting, they could leave the photos on those services shouldering them with the costs, while having the eyeballs of the users on their site. :)
- Ray Cromwell
On PubSubHubbub and rssCloud ... http://brad.livejournal.com/2405147... *sigh*
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MIT dome gets Rick Roll'd - http://tech.mit.edu/V129...
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"Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed seven notes on the great dome’s temporary scaffolding, commenting on its close resemblance to a musical score. The notes were the first seven of Rick Astley’s 'Never Gonna Give You Up.'"
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
Anyone out there running VMware Fusion? How's it going? - http://www.vmware.com/product...
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Always had problems getting the network working correctly.... I have been using parrallels...
- Paul Kinlan
I think a very fast and stable application. You should definitely try..
- Hüseyin EROL
I've been using it since it came out, and used Parallels in the past. Find VMWare Fusion to be by far the better product: it's more stable, it doesn't lock the machine up when booting a virtual machine, and has VMWare's ecosystem behind it. Only problem I've had with it is that if you turn on Direct 3D support, the Windows Experience Index thing doesn't ever finish, so you can't use Aero.
- Mark Trapp
I use fusion every day. It is fantastic!
- scott willeke
from iPhone
Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Semih Levi, Yaroslav Karasev, Carlos Andrés Rocha and 15 other people liked this
NOOOO!!!! Damn it, why are all my favorite sites being bought up?!
- Alex Scrivener
Alex: i echo your sentiment. and yet, i'm happy for the folks who poured blood/sweat/tears into their work and had it pay off. but selfishly, "NOOOO!" pretty much sums it up.
- Felicia Yue
Why do people get pissed at Microsoft? I have a new Dell/Vista. Nothing but Office 2007 on it. Crashes when I try to open Outlook. Sigh.
JECO Photo, John B. Osborne, Sebastian and 38 other people liked this
Nothing on it? Or a bunch of stuff installed by Dell on it?
- Sam Pullara
Sam: there's all the usual stuff installed by Dell. I need a Windows 7 DVD! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Don't you have the latest RC candidate Robert? That should work I would think.
- Altan Khendup
i say use linux and thunderbird
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Robert, why don't you use Thunderbird ? it's free, lightweight and it has lots of plugins https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- امیرعباس
Microsoft needs to take control of their own support - Dell support sucks, and drives me away from Microsoft.
- Jesse Stay
Have a client with a win 2003 server. It's needs OS re-installing. They've lost disks. Apparently MS don't offer OEM 2003 support anymore. the product key with the COA (obviously) doesn't work with the evaluation versions I was told by Dell to download from MS site. a third call to Dell support, and they 'find' some disks in stock after all. It was a whole day wasted though chasing around in circles.
- Ian May
Three new motherboards later and I couldn't be happier with my Dell. Srsly.
- A Mitchell
I've had more than my share of issues with various Linux distributions, too. Not sure who I should hate for that.
- Jeff Harbert
I use Gmail these days. Outlook is nasty expensive bloatware, that I can't personally justify the cost of, and with Gmail, none of the sync nonsense required either. I do back it up locally, but not had to use that yet.
- Ian May
Thunderbird sounds good but I think Opera client is worth a try 2 is so much nicer & with the browser 2.
- polou/indigo_bow
hello robert
- Ramazan Çekiç
Thunderbird is wonderful! I installed it on the fly (IMAP) during the last great Gmail outage with no issues
- 1001 noisy cameras
I think its just outlook... never could get that be very stable on any machine, not since they loaded it up with so many things.
- Matt Ellsworth
Yeah, Linux is no better. Why, I remember Ubuntu crashing on me just last year. Not the OS, mind you, but gdm, so I was logged out. Or was that 2007?
- Bruce Lewis
It's all the crap that these companies put on new PCs that is so tiresome. it's time wasting too, removing it all.
- Ian May
Dell was good some years ago. Now they are average. Deinstall Vista. Choose XP. My new Dell is working stable since I did that.
- Wulffy
ThinkPad, Vista and OpenOffice = works like a charm for me
- Ronald
oh come on guys - Thunderbird is no Outlook, long way to go still
- Iphigenie
I don't like Outlook as 1. I can't justify the price. 2. it's slow. 3. it's bloated eye candy 4. I don't need it.
- Ian May
does a new commercially bought PC with Windows and Software installed crash more than a commercially bought PC with linux or mac OSX? I'm not sure, perhaps it would be because typically there's way more installed and customized that can go wrong on first run. On the other hand my commercially bought HP with Linux could not be registered online or updated ("sorry, your serial number is...
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- Iphigenie
ok Kittyburgers. I used to use Outlook, but these days I simply don't need it. I prefer Gmail, and there's no darn sync nonsense. That is the main reason I moved away from local email.
- Ian May
Stop buying Dell. The load it with crapware. My latest Lenovo was great. And my Velocity Micro.
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
that's cuz we all know your old generation is pretty much computer illiterate
- sofarsoShawn
my curent annoyance with MS is the helpful search technology they have added and kind of forced on me - by default it indexes too much, uses too many resources, and gets in the way... and i cant remove it...
- Iphigenie
Learn how to use a computer, Scoble. Obviously you're doing it all wrong.
- John Hardy
Try having 40 Dells in a classroom that are never consistent. Then add 200 online students with GOD KNOWS WHAT home systems. Can you say IT exec turned CompApps prof turned HelpDesk technician? LOL!
- Brenda Rothaupt
They release products with extended beta's and once 60% of the "bugs" are worked out they charge you the 160$ for the service to continue. The people are getting educated this won't be in the future!! cs ostini
- Christopher Scott Ostini
Federer is amazing. This is the coolest shot I have ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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On SportsCenter they made it seem like Nadal had done it the match before though. I dunno if they were messing with the timeline.
- Casey Muller
Although Nadal lost the point.
- Casey Muller
OMG!
- vitzbank (aka claudio)
Amazing! He tried one like that at Match point in the fourth set of the 2005 Australian Open final against Safin - it didn't work, and he went on to lose the match in the fifth set...
- Michael Nielsen
I only saw it because I tuned in for 60 Minutes early. Not really a tennis fan, but I can certainly appreciate that shot.
- Tom Landini
awesome match. I've seen federer put a few of these winners in before, so awesome.
- Art
First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.
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http://yfrog.com/0oy62j @Miles is on a shopping trip.
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Mike Koss, Paul Buchheit, Jenna Bilotta and 2 other people liked this
Is he shopping, or is he being shopped for?
- Louis Gray
adorableness.
- Jenna Bilotta
Oh wow those jets were part of the space shuttle Discovery landing, no wonder it sounded like an earthquake it was a sonic boom
Mike Koss liked this
Today's video is about hidden gem at Google: our mobile app that does voice recognition: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Wonderful! Does it work with the Nokia N97 ?
- bellegarde-webb
Seattle 2.0 founder Marcelo Calbucci intros new Twitter app to help people follow large groups of people. http://www.techflash.com/seattle...
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Awesomely cool site, already thinking of ways to use this to manage twitter better
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Handwriting Tips Penmanship (forget cursive) - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Marco Fabbri, Tyson Key, Jérôme and 35 other people liked this
"The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure. The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. ... But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic."
- Paul Buchheit
That's how I write already! I had to change from Palmer to Italic in high school because I didn't have a typewriter (pre-computer era); our papers had to be typed or handwritten in italic.
- Anne Bouey
Nice article. It actually makes me want to grab a piece of that ruled paper to slowly trace out the letters. I find that my handwriting is best when it's all caps. I wonder if I can change that?
- Todd Lloyd
I think I might play with this some this weekend. Printable PDF here: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images...
- Michael Leggett
My mother has beautiful penmanship. I even found a book about it last year and gave it to her. Mine was always ok (Can you tell I went to Catholic school yet?) but it started to go awry when I started having to write in Palm PIlot.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Oddly enough, I've been writing like this for ages. I like joining some letters, but doing so constantly and with loops always seemed strange and ornate.
- Joel Webber
The amazing thing to note in this article is how easy it is to read letters when only the top half of the line is visible (and how impossible it is to read when only the bottom half is visible).
- Mike Koss
my wife got me perhaps the best birthday cake of all time - http://img36.yfrog.com/i...
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Happy birthday!
- Paul Buchheit
Your wife rocks! Happy birthday Joshua!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Giuseppe (regolo) and Mike Koss liked this
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35 Most Creative 404 Pages
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
Troubling the visitor for problems of your own
- ThinkEzy
I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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Well, if you have fixed the hole by upgrading; you should feel a lot safer now. I guess strong user adoption does bring the wrong kind of attention.
- Anindya Chatterjee
Anindya: we're watching. Looks like they haven't gotten back in since the upgrade and some of the other changes we made. Knock on wood.
- Robert Scoble
I'm very tempted to switch to a SixApart install. As a Perl programmer I'd be much more familiar with the backend.
- Jesse Stay
Robert, btw, I'm sure between all your users you can find a backup. I have a bunch via Google Reader I could get to Rackspace to import for you. I'm sure others have even older entries than I have. Let us know if you want help restoring the old scobleizer.com!
- Jesse Stay
robert - i can tell you this - you need to watch it like a hawk - when i thought i was safe - i wasn't - InsideTransit continues to get hit - and I still believe there is some patches and stuff that RS can do as well - the bigger issue is what's on the server - because that's where they put the shells and then they can do whatever they want.
- Allen Stern
Not cool, hopefully things will work out.
- Kim Landwehr
Jesse: luckily it was July and August, when I wasn't doing much blogging. No biggie. Thanks. Allen: yes, Rackspace Cloud has a security team now and they are actively looking at ways to make Wordpress safer for our customers. It really sucks getting hacked. Let me know if you find any other ways to protect the systems.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Yea getting hacked sucks. My early days with my blog aboutonlinematters.com I got hacked and luckily my ISP had a backup. Since then I have treated my Wordpress blog like any dev site - with a subversion repository and complete backup. But there are days... like today... when I think strongly about a platform like typepad.
- Arthur Coleman
what i have found is locking down the files helps - but you need to ftp into your site and make sure that nothing has been edited or added - in my case, on all my sites, the hackers put files all over that were base64 files - and what they do is include them into WP or they just run them direct - nearly a full shell. i've asked RS to create a way so that i can be notified of any changes to files - they say it's too heavy to run.
- Allen Stern
Robert, I just miss the traffic from your "You are SO Unfollowed!" article. (one of the casualties) ;-)
- Jesse Stay
There's a lot of great info they deleted - I'm a little ticked they would be completely insensitive like that to prove a security flaw. It affected much more than just you.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: yeah, that's probably the one blog that I miss. It's also the one that got me to notice they deleted a couple of months.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: that still is cached over on Google at http://74.125.155.132/search...
- Robert Scoble
No way "You are SO unfollowed" is out? I loved that one! :-( thanks for the cache Robert
- Sofia @ SoMaFusion
If you have no time to take care of yuors blog, maybe it's better if you choose the pro offer from wordpress.com ( I think scobleizer.com can have the minimum requirement to stay there).
- wolly
here it the VIP hosting http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hos...
- wolly
wolly: it's not just about time, attacks come from all directions so you've gotta have a holistic approach to security. How many of you regularly change passwords and make sure they are really good ones? (Twitter got broken into not because of hacks, but because they didn't practice good password security).
- Robert Scoble
It saddens me: it is morally reprehensible your hosting company convinced you to switch with the seduction of plugins and customization without emphasizing or handling the increased responsibility of upgrades. Your blog was not unique and not a special target, the worms sweep across millions of blogs indiscriminately and hit whatever is vulnerable. If your host is lax in upgrading, the...
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- Matt Mullenweg
that's true :-) I use password very strange and very verylong that I cannot remember and I use a service like clipperz.com to login.
- wolly
wolly, Robert was hosted on WordPress.com for about 4 years -- he was actually the very first VIP. Although there were dozens of security updates to WordPress in that time, his blog never had a problem because it was always up-to-date. He only switched away a few months ago.
- Matt Mullenweg
Ciao Matt :-) I didn't know that, so scoble come back to the light side :)
- wolly
Matt: yup, that's true. I've learned my lesson. Running your own servers are a lot harder than just having them hosted on Wordpress.com.
- Robert Scoble
To be frank, it completely breaks whatever trust I had in Rackspace.
- Matt Mullenweg
But Matt, I've been talking with many blog owners, including at TechCrunch, and they say that Wordpress' updates break their custom plugins. That's why they don't upgrade immediately. So, sounds like Wordpress has a mess on its hands that the hosted version of Wordpress didn't have (I couldn't run a lot of plugins and video embeds and other fun things on the hosted version of Wordpress). So, to blame it on my hoster/employer (Rackspace) exclusively isn't really a good attitude either.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, It happens. We were hacked too. My observations lead me to believe that this summer was the worst in a long time. Its a war and its going to be a war until the attitude towards hackers changes. Let's stop being fascinated in the least bit by how they do it (this goes towards Kevin Mitnick and his supporters- I don't ever want to pay good money to read about your scams on the...
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- Melanie Reed
Matt's got a point that with greater power (self-hosting) comes greater responsibility (more need to keep an eye on security), but I think to say that Scoble's blog was not a special target is a bit disingenuous. High-profile sites are always a higher-value target.
- Rachel Luxemburg
Matt: I think you need to really look at all the damage that's being done to a wide range of sites, many of which are NOT hosted at Rackspace, before throwing more barbs. That's bull. Sorry. But I added a link to this conversation to my blog so people could see your point of view.
- Robert Scoble
If a plugin is preventing you from upgrading (did it?) then let's figure out how to fix that plugin. All I can do in WordPress is build in the notices (your blog was asking you to upgrade for months) and the one-click updates for both core and plugins. I agree it's not your (Robert Scoble's) fault because I don't think you made the conscious decision to take on the increased responsibility.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt: the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things. This wasn't a Rackspace recommendation. It's also a problem with all upgrades. I've gotten hosed by upgrades elsewhere. Look at all the people upgrading to Snow Leopard who are having things break.
- Robert Scoble
Matt: TechCrunch hasn't upgraded its blog either and it wasn't hosted on Rackspace (at least not until a couple of days ago).
- Robert Scoble
I'm not saying there isn't lots of misinformation around the net, I'm saying "how can I help your blog, please." If it's a plugin preventing you from upgrading, let me know the plugin and we'll fix it even if we didn't write it. That's the beauty of open source.
- Matt Mullenweg
Robert -- Avoiding upgrades because they're annoying to deal with isn't a viable longterm strategy.
- Rachel Luxemburg
they need to take care of Scoble's blog, well for he is a VIP and the smashing they would have would do a lot of damage to your customer base and otherwise, would they reply to an ordinary guy say like me? i think not,well wordpress/automattic is having their tough moments, hope things get well and they get their repute back
- testbeta
Matt - you blaming Rackspace for security vulnerabilities in YOUR software platform is kinda like blaming Dell when a Windows box gets hacked. I think you are being irrational.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt: in my case it was the REPUTATION of Wordpress's upgrades that was keeping me from upgrading. I was waiting to see what other people reported broke. I didn't realize the severity of the security problems. But, I am now upgrading automatically. So I'm fixed. But you still have a reputation problem. Lots of people are reporting things break when they upgrade.
- Robert Scoble
Rob, I'm not blaming them. I'm saying it's the responsibility of any host, of any software, to stay up to date. If there was a SSH vulnerability on Robert's box I would say the same thing. Software updates are inevitable, there is no such thing as bug-free code, so staying up to date is a must.
- Matt Mullenweg
Isn't all this open source code? If it's broken, why not fix it? Doesn't everyone have the responsibility to do that? It's not any one source's fault in that case.
- Jesse Stay
Matt - I agree with you. So make Wordpress upgrades SAFE, automatic AND do some internal validation of plugin code to let users know they may be running something that is potentially insecure.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt, agreed. Not when its turned out as fast as people are yelling for it. People can't have it both ways.
- Melanie Reed
Matt: all Rackspace was providing to me was a Linux host. I was responsible for getting my upgades done on anything I ran on that system. But now we have a team making sure we're following best practices. That is NOT Rackspace's problem, though. That's like blaming Microsoft for a bug in Adobe software.
- Robert Scoble
I never listen to the reputation, I always upgrade as a security upgrade is out, and if a plugin doesn't work or I deactivate it or I fix it. Security is much more important than a plugin and Matt knows how many plugins has my blog (when he looked my backend he was very sad ad he said that it was the first time for him to see so many plugin in a blog :-) ) To have a self host blog it's difficult and time expensive.
- wolly
There are several very useful plugins specifically addressing security issues; and monitoring WP for suspicious activities (both on file and database level). Here are some articles with tips to harden your blog http://bit.ly/sZgh6 (delicious bookmarks). I only install plugins from authors from whom I know that they implement top level php; no breaking of upgrades on my 3 WP blogs has taken place (2.7-2.8-2.8.4)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Yeah, plugin issues are the responsibility of the plugin developer, not Wordpress's. I don't see how this is Wordpress's or Rackspace's fault.
- Jesse Stay
By the way, Matt, Sheamus, over on my comments on my blog, says he has the latest upgrades in place and he's still being broken into. You might help him figure out how the hackers are breaking in still.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, I was under the impression Rackspace had recommended you move away from WordPress.com and taken responsibility for the system. I was worried about your blog -- I emailed you about this in August but never heard back. It breaks my heart when someone's WordPress gets compromised.
- Matt Mullenweg
I understand the feeling though - if people are still being broken into after being told a fix was made, especially if you're not a developer, that can be a little scary. I'd look to other solutions in that case if it were me, and it's no one's fault. It's just perception and fear, very valid fear.
- Jesse Stay
I do believe there is a false sense of securty that WORDPRESS fosters by hosting plugins. I think many assume that because they download the pluging VIA Wordpress, and FROM Wordpress, it is somehow vetted.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt: no. I wanted to move to my own install of Wordpress so that I could run many more plugins and start doing stuff other professional bloggers were doing. I am learning very quickly just how much work goes on behind the scenes to make sure my words were protected.
- Robert Scoble
Once you've been hacked once if you don't clean up every trace (preferably a systems person does this) it's very likely something is left that allows the spammers to easily break back in, regardless of what version you're on. That's why the trouble with upgrading is worth it, it's much, much less than the trouble of fixing a hacked blog.
- Matt Mullenweg
Jesse: yeah, at Microsoft when a box got broken into they wouldn't let you use it anymore. They forced you to reinstall it with all patches loaded. They assumed that it was compromised and that someone stuck a back door in somewhere. That's a lot of work too.
- Robert Scoble
install either wp-backup or wp-dbmanager and configure database backup: every day; download to your local pc (or to a system other than your hosting provider); run a check once a month to see whether you can reconstruct the blog in case of calamity, That is my procedure; works fine.
- Jeroen De Miranda
if a commoner gets hacked, then he should move to wordpress.com services or what?
- testbeta
they should just make it not have any security holes!
- Mark
Robert, if you like I'd be happy to host your blog for you (and I'm on Rackspace servers). I can keep it secure as well. I'd only ask some mention of SocialToo somewhere (or payment of some form in order to cover the cost of bandwidth).
- Jesse Stay
I would also be able to keep it backed up for you.
- Jesse Stay
I'll also install any plugins you're interested in trying
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: in my case, I now have a team of the top security guys at Rackspace working on it and making sure my system is up to date and backed up. They also are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices.
- Robert Scoble
This is eventually why I didn't go with Mosso. The service looks good, but you still have to manage your app yourself which opens you up to problems like you've experienced. It would be cool if they offered another layer of management on top so apps could be completely hands free.
- Todd Hoff
the alternative (i.e. strong vetting of all plugins) would turn the whole WordPress ecosphere into something such as Ning.... only some 300 addons (as far as I know); little flexibility very intransparent how to get your addin accepted .... Not an attractive model for me....
- Jeroen De Miranda
Robert, excellent - just wanted to make sure the offer was out there. Maybe that could be a tiered service for Rackspace, although I'm not sure it's something Rackspace wants to get into. Bluehost barely makes any money off of that type of service.
- Jesse Stay
Steve: I think that's a reasonable set of assumptions. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. When I was on Wordpress.com I was always jealous of blogs that were able to run the latest plugins and use the latest embed codes from various sites.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, it's even more fun when you can customize the plugins and themes as a developer. :-)
- Jesse Stay
@testbeta wrdpress.com is a very good choice if you don't have time or you don't know how to manage security on yors self hosted blog
- wolly
wolly: that takes out the open source fun part ;) well i have nothing much to do on my blogs so i keep mine updated ;)
- testbeta
I agree with you :-) but many people love blogging non update theirs blogs :-)
- wolly
when my sites were hacked - a wordpress employee reached out to me- i dont remember her name but we sent a few emails - i could write for days about what happened to my 5 sites - my take is simple - i think the issues are a combo of rackspace (my host) and wordpress (my software) - i can tell you this - in 3+ yrs on drupal, i was NEVER hacked. and Matt is right - the real issue is that...
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- Allen Stern
Allen - what version of WP are you running today?
- Rob La Gesse
2.8.4 on all of them
- Allen Stern
Allen - good :)
- Rob La Gesse
If there's a shell script on the same server as you, even if it's not your account, everything on that server is at risk regardless of the software or its version.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt - that is NOT true
- Rob La Gesse
I would switch to a new server if I were infected at this point.
- Jesse Stay
Properly configured, user space can be isolated and these scripts cannot cross-pollinate.
- Rob La Gesse
It can be -- but publish a shell login on your server and we'll see. ;) The right answer is to scrub that sort of access.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt - that comment on the "shell script" is silly. What are you actually trying to say?
- Robert J Taylor
Some sort of backdoor that allows a remote user to execute code -- it's super common.
- Matt Mullenweg
rob/matt - that wsa one of the biggest issues with my RS account - i had all the sites together in one "client" so when they hacked one - they were able to move around with their shell script into all my other sites - now each site is in a sep. "client" so the damage can only hurt me on one site - and believe me it does hurt :( i believe insidetransit and centernetworks are hit in google
- Allen Stern
@Scobleizer I'm sticking with @wordpress it doesn't worry me that much, plus I always update and have backups of db and site emailed to me
- Justin Yost
Allen - that was within one user space though. So what I stated above still stands true.
- Rob La Gesse
Allen and Robert are big enough that if they had a problem they could contact us and we'd help them, though as far as I know neither did, but I worry a lot more about smaller folks who get hit in the same way. The knowledge for how to properly clean up after a hack is more systems than software and not widespread.
- Matt Mullenweg
As Allen mentioned above, he did have a conversation with Wordpress.
- Rob La Gesse
matt - thanks for putting me in the same category as robert! *blush* - i did reach out to you - and your security guy was helping me big time - it seemed to turn out that the WP Contact Form 7 was the thing that caused it to start - i didn't document it all online because the security guy wanted time to get the plugin developer to fix the upload hole. - btw his name was mark jaquith and he was great
- Allen Stern
So why not some scheme where Wordpress vets a plugin and "blesses it" - perhaps a small charge for this service? As long as Wordpress is advertising plugins on the dashboard I think there ample reason to hold Wordpress to some level of accountability for those plugins
- Rob La Gesse
rob - that's what i told mark - they should offer that service for a tiny fee - stamp a "certified" stamp on it.
- Allen Stern
Just updated all my sites, doesnt look I was hit.
- sean percival
sean - no one would hit you - they know you would lala all over them
- Allen Stern
sean - happy for you!
- Rob La Gesse
I've read almost all of the comments here, not hearing these mentioned once: Robert did not backup, kept the default 'admin' username and failed to update. These are three of the most basic security measures out there. Not blaming it on Robert, because we all fail on this sometimes, but these basics really are important!
- Abounding Media
http://twitter.com/markjaq... warning of Mark in April - kept me away from WP contact form 7
- Jeroen De Miranda
Abounding: yup. And the lesson here is don't host your own version of Wordpress unless you have a security team making sure you're doing it right and backing up (something I never did on Wordpress.com, by the way). Oh, and Twitter taught us that even if you do all of that you've gotta make sure you pick great passwords and think through ways that social hacks could be done to get into your accounts.
- Robert Scoble
I've written a much longer post on this: http://wordpress.org/develop...
- Matt Mullenweg
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008... some great tips of Mark Jaquith on writing secure plugins - I use these and other tips when scanning the PHP code of new plugins that I intend to use (before deploying them)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Jeroen, thanks for posting that. I've had phishers getting into one of my WP installs recently, but couldn't tell which plugin it was. I deactivated two plugins, including CF7, the other day, and haven't had any more problems. And a shoutout to Ryan Boren on the WP dev team for helping me to de-infect.
- John Craft
Robert: Welcome to the world of web development for impatient users and disgruntled hackers
- Melanie Reed
http://wordpress.org/develop... great post of Matt Mullenweg about WordPress security!
- Jeroen De Miranda
john - the CF7 is what killed me a few months ago - it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on - i believe they patched it but i have not gone back there.
- Allen Stern
anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog?
- Richard Reeve
John, your are welcome! SQL injects attacks specifically exploit data entry fields used by the plugin; one should at least scan the PHP code of these plugins, and look at what kind of escape functions are used around handling of the data entry.
- Jeroen De Miranda
"it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on" - wow. That's bad.
- John Craft
Richard is wp-stats smily :-)
- wolly
"anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog?" - if you didn't put it there, it probably is. In your admin go to appearance, theme editor, and read the footer.php file.
- John Craft
Richard - are you using the WordPress.com Stats plugin?
- Andre Natta
some plugins worth considering to install are: wp-exploit-scanner, wordpress file monitor, WP security scan, anti virus
- Jeroen De Miranda
I don't understand why people are worried about a plugin breaking when it comes to upgrading WordPress. If a plugin does break, disable it for the time being. I rather have a secure installation of WordPress running and would worry about fixing the plugin afterwards.
- Jason Hansen
Hmmmm . . . I run WP Stats, but see no smiley face.
- John Craft
ah...thanks folks...stats it is. phew...so I'm not paranoid...
- Richard Reeve
The problem with WordPress is that it forces you to upgrade. Imagine if Microsoft forced everybody to upgrade to Vista/Windows 7 in order to get their security holes plugged. WordPress should release security patches for the current and at least for the previous version.
- Nikolay Kolev
They dont force you to upgrade. If you dont want to patch, you can leave it at the current version ( but with a risk )
- Kashif Khan
Where's the patch for the 2.7 version then?
- Nikolay Kolev
Their versioning strategy bumps up numbers even for patches . And how many versions behind should they support ?
- Kashif Khan
Many of the WordPress security issues are not coming from the WordPress itself, but from the poorly written WordPress plugins. I think it would be nice if Automattic starts an "Automattic Certified" program giving blog owners the peace of mind they need. Every hacker can upload a plugin at WordPress.org, advertise it as something great, bloggers install it, see that it's nothing as advertised, uninstall it, but the WordPress instances are already hacked.
- Nikolay Kolev
Plugins are open source and free and nobody (well, with some exceptions) would pay to get their free plugin certified. The only way to do this is by having a community review process, based on some credibility score and voter authority system where 1,000 fake hacker accounts won't, for example, outweigh Matt's or Mark's votes.
- Nikolay Kolev
part of the problem is the cry wolf syndrome - if i updated every day wordpress had a security problem i'd want to be salaried on the payroll :D Wordpress needs some sort of alert notification - twitter or something that indicates if there's an update AND the severity and if its severe enough sends it to my phone.
- mal
let me play the other side of the coin - i've been using vbulletin for my forums for probably more than 5 years - and it's never once been hacked - why is this - is it because it's paid? is it just more secure? would love to get some input on why wordpress seems to be the attacker's gold.
- Allen Stern
@allenstern because it pays back better to have wp hacked
- A. T.
Another devil - I have clients using Expression Engine for years (with plugins) and haven't had a problem either. Checking security sites, EE has had very few vs the many with WP and some with Drupal. Matts suggestion that one hosts with him to avoid problems and keep updated just isn't in the cards for business sites. Just too many vulnerabilities with WP over the years for me to recommend it.
- PXLated
i can tell you that within 2 days of moving from drupal to wp, my sites were hacked - all of them - and it made me seriously question the move - the reasons i moved were because wp is a bit easier to edit/code than drupal and because the admin panel in wordpress is awesome compared to the crap panel in drupal - i wrote up a whole post about why i moved - i'd like to see matt write a post about their qa and security procedures for their releases
- Allen Stern
Alen, once Drupal 7 get released, you may actually go back. :)
- Nikolay Kolev
Robert - If I were you I'd move away from Wordpress and fast. Its security record is dire and has been for ages. Other solutions are a lot more stable, whereas Wordpress seems to have security bugs every second week. Why anyone puts up with it is really beyond me. I moved to MovableType and haven't had to worry about caching issues or security problems
- Michele Neylon
#somethingpersonal WP calls you "technical evengelist", Robert. When you say «Yes, I didn’t have a backup. I should learn to do backups» I call you a mediawhore. Nothing TECH-NI-CAL, just bulled ego. Learn Security, Performance, Reliability, you ignorant piece.
- м.д.ж. 20%
Robert - "the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things" I'm sorry but that's just not true, I use many many plugins across about 20 sites and I've only ever ONCE had a plugin break during a WP upgrade.
- John O'Nolan
Definitely check if Google Reader has your lost posts - as of a few months ago, it didn't handle deletes very well :)
- Michael Herf
This recent wave of WordPress incidents shows the negative side of using open source software. Matt says that there are many people looking into WordPress' source code, but the problem is that probably half of those people have malicious reasons for doing so.
- Nikolay Kolev
@Matt - why not have a module that adds *automatic* upgrades? The one-click update feature is very nice, but zero clicks is better. With a decent snapshot/rollback system you could update most people securely right away--email them and let them rollback if something breaks.
- Michael Herf
@robert: we might be able to help you recover the lost blog posts if you want. Google Reader has an archive of them and we helped another blogger in the past recover her losses. Let me know if we can help.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@matt when do you start to care about poor people unlike robert... who can't afford *VIP* i am willing to pay $25+ per month of course with my adsense ads :}
- Imran Jafri
@robert by the way you made one of the worst choice to move away from wordpress.com i think it wasn't price issue rather you wanted to be brand *ambassador* for rackspace which was only possible if you host your blog on their damn servers... if i get enough visitors i would switch to wordpress.com vip without taking 2nd breathe........
- Imran Jafri
I run just a few plugins, and research and vet them first. And upgrade to new WP versions within a week. Look, attacks happen, running self-hosted can get complicated. But this is true with any software or OS
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Nikolay, it's always better to have more people looking at the code, because a bug that's been found is better than a bug that hasn't. WordPress used to get almost no security problems and people thought it was because it was coded differently, when in fact it was coded far worse than it is today it just didn't have enough users to make it worthwhile to target. Also where many...
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- Matt Mullenweg
Nikolay: I would also push back against your assumption that using Open Source software equals less security. Microsoft Windows and OS X are both closed source and both have security holes - there is a competition each year to help MS and Apple find them and fix them. Both Apple and Microsoft came away with security holes to fix this year. So just because it's open source doesn't...
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- Tim
that's what you get for the fun of installing and hosting your own installation, instead of using "the cloud".
- Ihar Mahaniok
Robert - I recommend WP S3 Backups for backing up your database to off-site storage. Amazon S3 is a great place to host backups of your Wordpress database and is relatively inexpensive. You *always* want backups *off* the server so in case the server is compromised, the backups are still clean. This plugin works like a charm, is automatic and could have saved you. Cheers!
- Scott Jarkoff
anybody know of a test that can be done to see if a wp blog has been compromised? Has a few strange user subscriptions about a week ago...but not noticing any thing else...I did upgrade weeks ago, but soon enough?
- Richard Reeve
bug exploits keep security IT folks in their day job, sad but true.
- Jim Posner
In IT it keeps me busy but the reality is if you update your software on a regular basis you can minimize these from affecting you.
- Rob Cairns
Robert, any chance archive.org has some of your old blog posts? Google Cache?
- drew olanoff
Matt, another thing to note is that Wordpress.com is often blocked in China (even if you have your own custom URL like scobleizer.com). There are advantages to NOT being hosted by Wordpress.com although your point about increased responsibilty for keeping up with security patches is still valid.
- Elliott Ng
Drew: yeah, but what do I do? Just republish them?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sure why not. Scoble's best of. Reason why I hate stuff on the net sometimes is good stuff gets lost.
- drew olanoff
Give a try to the "WordPress Database Backup" plugin for WordPress and you'll receive regular backups on your email
- Francois Lamotte
Robert, You can get all of your lost blog post html out of Google Reader. I'm not exactly sure how to link Disqus back, maybe it's as simple as re-adding the old posts with the same title/date i.e. Url (I don't use it). Yet another reason to use FULL RSS feeds (instead of summary). See RSS isn't dead.. it's now a backup tool too! (http://ff.im/7JrlC)
- Chris Myles
Wordpress is a great blogging tool. It is however the largest target now - much like how Windows gets a crap-top more virii because it's the most used system. Someone used Drupal as am example of security... well I'm sure if Drupal was anywhere near the scale of usage Wordpress is you'd see hacks for that too.
- Gregory Wild-Smith
Robert: Just repost them with the dates set to the original dates they were posted. Simple, and no-one will ever know ;)
- Gregory Wild-Smith
I have always had a bad feeling about Wordpress. YMMV.
- Gordon Joly
from twhirl
Robert It could be a Rackspace problem and Not a Wordpress Problem. They might to increase there security on the Rackspace!!! You should checck into that!!
- Paul
One of the reasons I waited 2 years to switch from MovableType to WordPress was due to the security issues. I felt that the track record improved over the past year and moved 11 sites over. I can say this I employ a very extensive back up scheme but still worry about it. The ability to upgrade with a single click of a button has made it much easier to upgrade, but I always worry which plugins are going to break as I use a lot of plugins.
- Todd Cochrane
hmm... I think that a lot of this conversation is missing something. Most software security updates are usually tested in hosts and thus delayed in their own releases by at the minimum of a week's time usually. This is due to hosting internal testing of patches before rolling it out to all servers. Now, whether or not RS actually performs these types of procedures, I don't know... but I...
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- Ben Hwang
First: I keep my blog up to date. Always. Fuck plugins, I decided that when I made the decision to use WP for my blog that updates would be a priority, only because of all the security issues that I remember from the early early days. Having said that, I have to agree with Robert that the perception with WordPress, despite all the work with auto-updates and in-blog notification is STILL...
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- Christina Warren
from iPod
I am spending the day finally making a back-up of my web space, then the upgrade.
- Sebastian Keil
you are right to not feel safe: when you are on the dominant platform, holes get taken advantage of really fast. At least it being open source you know it will also get plugged fast
- Iphigenie
"what do I do? Just republish them?" - Robert, you can set the published date to the original July or August date in the "new post" form. Where it says "publish immediately," click "edit".
- John Craft
I couldn't disagree more that the reputation is that an upgrade will break a plugin. How many plugins reach into the Wordpress core and screw around with it? Less than 5%? Any examples of plugins that broke w/ 2.8.4?
- beersage
Somebody hacked into my WordPress blog earlier this year as well. It was a bummer because I was working on a draft copy of a blog post that was very rough and had not been edited and they published it. I was on vacation shooting in Chicago and didn't figure it out until several hours after they'd already published it. Fortunately they didn't seem to do anything malicious other than...
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- Thomas Hawk
@Robert: "[Rackspace] are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices." Is it possible this list is something RS might share?
- John House
@Matt Mullenweg: I do like WordPress (even though we had a public argument with you and another Automattic employee on TechCrunch a while ago) and I am a passionate supporter of open source software - don't get me wrong. But sometimes open source code makes it a bit easier for hackers! For example, one hacker hears about an exploit and without communicating with others, finds the hole independently by just looking into the source code and starts exploiting it on his own.
- Nikolay Kolev
Gregory Wild-Smith Bingo!
- Melanie Reed
Social Media Club blogs got hit as well as several of our personal blogs (still sorting it all out). We try to keep up on most upgrades, but every time we do, simple plugins (like the Event calendar) break. Seems silly, but we have hours of work after each upgrade to try and keep everything intact, and sometimes, we end up downgrading until the 'essential' plugins catch up, which...
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- Kristie Wells
I have 2 wordpress blogs. One on my own domain and one at wordpress central. Still can't get my head around their upgrade gymnastics - may just stick with eBlogger after all.
- Houseofmax
i don't know what will happen in times to come but from the existing platforms, i love wordpress and i am not going anywhere, but that doesn't matter for wordpress right? ;)
- testbeta
Robert, at the end of it is just only your bloody laziness in upgrading that led you here :) Jokes aside, please at least be honest and say you didn't upgradede twice... :p.
- Matteo Flora
Nope. I upgraded to 2.8.4 as soon as it was out but the hackers had already broken in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The fact that WordPress is currently being exploited doesn't mean that other platforms are immune. For example, the recently discovered XSS issue with Ruby on Rails makes not only blogs, but every unpatched site a target. So, the only issue I'm having is forcing us to upgrade to a new major version without much time to do proper testing (I'm not talking about personal blogs here). I...
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- Nikolay Kolev
So Techdirt was hacked a bit ago. See their reaction: http://www.techdirt.com/article... it is the reality of owning a web site guys - ANY software is hackable if someone really wants in.
- Adam Singer
@Robert: as I see it Wordpress is as vulnerable as any other web app. Upgrading does good, but preemptive security does more and better. I know Matt and he knows I'm in awe with him and Automattic but simply spoken I DON'T TRUST WORDPRESS as I don't trust any other software. A little WebApp Security Firewall (or at least a little .htaccess rules for admin and preemptive locking of...
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- Matteo Flora
i find it interesting, and depressing that people are blaming Rackspace, they're blaming Wordpress, they're blaming Robert, but no one, *no one* seems to be willing to blame the only, ONLY people who deserve blame: the evolutionary failures that attacked Robert's blog.
- John C. Welch
Thanks to your post, I found backdoor Admin in my own blog (created yesterday apparently). Promptly deleted it, upgraded blog and took other measures, which I blogged about
- Adi Rabinovich
@Matt Mullenweg: "so staying up to date is a must. - Matt Mullenweg" You gave the birth to one of the coolest piece of free software on the net, also your community is strong an love-full, you can do some PRs listening to Scoble that is crying, but you couldn't do anything better than you did. Take it easy man, all your competitors still suck. (PS. also a cleaning utility to understand better if everything is ok on our hosts would be cool ;-)
- simone righini
Matt: What does a user need to provide, in order to be considered for a VIP wordpress.com account?
- Jim Connolly
caveat operator
- Mike Chelen
I would simply like to reiterate the point that if you're going to put free open source software on a rented web server, you need to either know how to administer it or hire someone to do it for you. Neither Rackspace or Wordpress are to blame here. We discuss this with our clients all the time who view web development as a one off expense, then get upset when their site is hacked because it wasn't maintained.
- JP Maxwell
One more point, I think there are way too many false lines drawn over aras of responsibility - "I'm systems, not a PHP programmer. I'm a PHP programmer, not a Javascript person. I'm a designer, not a programmer or a systems person." If you are a WEB developer or responsible for maintaining hosted WEB applications, you need to know a bit about it all. It simply isn't sufficient to demarcate your knowledge sphere and point your finger at the other guy.
- JP Maxwell
Wow !
- ★ Soner Gönül
To The Lady Who Looks Like This Drawing http://leoville.posterous.com/to-the-...
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hey hey hey whos it going
- daveccorey
@biz is doing interpretive readings of @shitmydadsays in front of the company at Tea Time
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I think I'm going to start a Twitter account, @ohinutah - it would be very entertaining
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I think I am going to monitor your comments and likes and when you exceed a number, I will e-mail all SocialToo users to explain why features are not being implemented.
- Louis Gray
Louis, everyone deserves a break every now and then. Why are we discussing this in @ev's thread?
- Jesse Stay
Because I am stalking you on the Web.
- Louis Gray
Well, as long as you e-mail all Twitter users and tell them why new features aren't getting implemented as well.
- Jesse Stay
If you want to use @Dropbox use this URL (2GB account is free!): https://www.getdropbox.com/referra...
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davewiner: Now I think I have RSS where I want it, next I'm turning to a new paradigm for blogging. :-) - http://twitter.com/davewin...
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The 1,026 geekiest Twitterers (for #FollowFriday) - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/the-102...
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It's interesting to see the actual data presented of what I actually find useful. That said, I like following a lot of people who are really low on this list.
- Robert Scoble
from Posterous
for true geekieness it really only should have been 1024.
- Shawn McCollum
Shawn: true! I love how fast Posterous gets here, by the way. Within microseconds.
- Robert Scoble
+1 4 shawn :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
That's a good use of your 'favs' data, Robert. And interesting that you say that the number of favs does not always indicate how much you like following someone - so there's something more going on there?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
flattered to be in the top few :)
- Zee.
WorldofHiglet: some people I just like to follow their lives and see the small things going on with them like birthdays, kids, etc, but those things would never get faved.
- Robert Scoble
Sweet I made the cut...err, I'm still having trouble saying that word http://friendfeed.com/krynsky...
- Mark Krynsky
That's what I meant, Robert. It's not all about value in terms of hard-core information. The 'social' side to social media is still important.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
This is cool, I didn't know I'd been "favorited". I feel so honored. <blush>
- RobinDotNet
Ooo....quite near the top! :)
- Steve Farnworth
I'm in too ;)
- Marc van Waardenburg
Wow, you really like TechCrunch and Arrington!
- RobinDotNet
Seems to be having problems showing the actual tweets. Has Robert Scoble brought down favstar??
- RobinDotNet
I've been getting the same RoR message on my application. 500 server error! Took me about 2 hours to solve mine!
- Steve Farnworth
Interesting, Robert gives himself 2 favs.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I saw that - funny :) Hey I've got 1 wooo hooo!
- Susan Beebe
None here (a little disappointed I'm not a top 1,000 geek) but Twitter was never my true home. ;-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
i'm happy to be bubbling near the bottom.
- michael sean wright
Robert is still not following me, so I won't be there :(
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Joe: Robert is yet to discover me it seems :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I wish there was a way to get someone's favorites natively in your Twitter stream (not RSS). With Favstar, you need to visit their site.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Joe: You can speak now. I'm in his stream now. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I never knew I had an ambassador! Thanks, Joe.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Mahedra: I just didn't know who you were before. Welcome.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: No issues. We've interacted only briefly before. Last I remember: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
No doubt about TechCrunch.They are real twitter geeks.
- goldberg_sizzles
There are at least 2^10 people more geeky than me, so that means I can be no better than an 11th rank geek. Bummer, I thought I was a 9th rank geek, 10th at minimum.
- DGentry
How can I view what tweets were fav'd? I'm glad I made the list! :) The only problem with having so many favorite tweets though is now when I click the "more" button they won't load. :(
- Garin Kilpatrick
something tells me diggnation #220 is going to be awesome.. hmm... http://twitpic.com/g9m9s
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awesome!
- Jay
Will there be an explosion of some sort?
- Johnny
only if they cross the streams...
- Lenny Frankowiak
Though Leo Laporte "liked" this bit of news, he has to be at least somewhat jealous as well. Adam would make a great guest anywhere he was willing to sit down and the TWIT network would be a great forum.
- JR Holmes
thats a whole lot of sexy in black shirt.
- Andros lee
Are they gonna blow stuff up? Now that would be an interesting Diggnation show!
- George Brickner
Not Adam Savage.
- The Dude Dean
Gave up listening to this show. Kevin Rose is seriously leaking brain cells.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Screencast demonstration of Drupal Deploy module in action - http://www.youtube.com/watch... #drupalcon
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Got @feedly working and WOW it has Google Reader NAILED. My new home page.
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Why so late?
- Rahsheen?
exactly!
- michael sean wright
I just went back to it today after a couple weeks hiatus.
- Bryan R. Adams
I just wish they had a web service or something that worked with Safari
- Jesse Stay
Coach: I've been using it for a while. Not late at all. It's just that this new version finally nailed it for me and got me excited. Why? It shows friends. That's the main thing I liked about Google Reader.
- Robert Scoble
I'm waiting for Feedly for Chrome
- Andre P. Siregar
Thank you Robert @Jesse a few people have been able to get an experimental feedly for safari running (see http://blog.feedly.com/2009... ) Andre: I expect us to push out a Chrome version out in October.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Awesome! Thanks, Edwin.
- Andre P. Siregar
from email
Edwin, nice! Thanks!
- Jesse Stay
I've said it before and I'll say it again; Google should buy feedly! It's my favorite app by far.
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: We would actually prefer to see Google Reader become a platform like twitter and feedly be one of the clients built in that ecosystem. For RSS to go mainstream, you are going to need a lot of different niche experiences to emerge.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Happy to hear feedly works for you, does Firefox? It runs_slowly_for_me...
- David Libby
The thing is utterly incomprehensible.
- Dominic Jones
Yeah. Feedly has been my homepage for a few months. Love it to death.
- Quasar
Feedly is fantastic. Not sure why more people aren't using it. I'd love to hear what the guys on TWIG think of it in particular.
- invariant
I just installed feedly last night and have just started using it. I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces tonight. Looks very slick.
- Aaron Schaub
from iPod
Feedly is one of my fave apps. Hardly look at google reader since I started using Feedly and so easy to cross post too!
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Edwin: definitely looking forward to it.
- motownmutt
I am going to have to give this thing a try.
- Vadim Lavrusik
Feedly for Chrome, please? Pretty please?
- Craig Eddy
yay I can't wait to see it in Oct for Chrome!
- metalerik
@Keith. Yes. There was an encoding regression in a patch we pushed out this afternoon. This problem has been fixed in 2.x.014 and everything should be working correctly next time you restart firefox. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I was using Feedly a while ago and went back to Google Reader. It was just too painful to keep up with all my feeds.
- Jody Fanning
from twhirl
@feedly has completely taken over my use of google reader...
- Andy Bryant
Love, feedly, looking forward to trying the Safari version
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
yeah feedly is great, but try the greasemonkey plugins for reader. i like enhanced black. when its late and dark and i just want to scan the internets its perfect on the eyes
- Robert Higgins
Feedly is severely broken for me. I can't get it to show all on the latest tab. The drop down that works on other tabs does nothing there.
- Otto
Sorry if this question is a rookie mistake, but pros/cons GoogleReader vs Feedly? THANKS.
- Jimmy Watson
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A lot of blood, sweat, and beer went into my new website design, & now I need the critical opinions of strangers: http://www.sarahlane.com/blog...
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Man i love it
- your iphone helper
I'm liking what I see so far. It feels very personalized and I like the home page with the tweet word bubble above your picture. Good work! The blood, sweat and beers paid off! :)
- Jonathan Hardesty
sweet
- Chris Heath
I like the simplicity of the look. It might be good to make the navigation usability match that simplicity a little more. For example, navigation is in two places on home and the top bar on sub pages. That's 3 locations for a new user to remember. This can cause premature exits from your site. I'd make the top nav work on all pages, and maybe merge the two navs on home page into one...
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- Dave Friedel
Any page that starts off with a big picture of you is simply beautiful. So you can imagine my surprise when I clicked your Facebook link and saw my own ugly mug. Your link just takes me to my own home page. Other wise a very nice page :)
- Eric Carter
And the links on your other pages, (about, projects, and what not) are taking me nowhere. Not sure if that's my me though. I've been having "issues" lately
- Eric Carter
i'm getting sarah's facebook page and the projects links work for me as well
- Chris Heath
but i do kind of agree w/ dave about the nav bar - should always be at the top on all the pages
- Chris Heath
any why part 1114?
- Chris Heath
Looks great!
- Renee
Hmm, Now I am getting your FB page. I think the internets just doesn't like me anymore...
- Eric Carter
Looks great, nice and simple although the nav menu doesn't stand out enough for me. Actually took me a couple of seconds to find it =P. Once found, works fine though!
- travispuk
Very nice and clean.
- Thomas
Nice design, but not a fan of the picture on the front page header. Love the style, just not that head shot.
- Otto
I like it!
- Fee501st
stylé!
- sofarsoShawn
looks really cool. love the twitter, flickr, facebook, delicious, etc. little widget.
- Thomas Hawk
LIke others have said I wish that the nav was in place on all pages. the index page without the nav at the top almost feels like its just a page to advertise where to find you on other social networks, which is fine, but i'm not totally sure there is more to this site in that context. Also in the blog and other pages the blocher ads are rather distracting and detract from the rest of the site. Just my 2 cents though.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thx for all the feedback, guys and gals! I tend to agree that the nav should be consistent. I'll try to figure out how that can work into v2. And I'm going to rotate the main landing page pic every so often.. so if you don't like this one, no biggie, it'll change eventually. :)
- Sarah Lane
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