Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Credit card fraud or hello from “Papal”

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud

Everyone met with spam emails. Everyone knows what to do with such noisy kind of mail – recycle bin is the right place for such messages. But some messages we read from time to time. And some of those dangerous messages we can accidentally trust.
My friends, I wish to pay your attention one more time. Again. Do not trust to emails which asks you send somewhere your passwords, credit card numbers, etc. Do not trust them, even if they looking very similar to messages you could receive from well known services.

I received such message this morning and want to show it to you. Just in order you know, how it could be masks.

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Install JDK 7 on Ubuntu

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Install JDK 7 on Ubuntu

Install JDK 7 on Ubuntu

Task: Install JDK 7 on Ubuntu desktop.
Problem 1: Java version 7 is not available from Ubuntu repositories for your Ubuntu version (prior to 11.10 Oneiric). You don’t see it neither via "Ubuntu Software Center" nor via "Synaptic Package Manager".
What to do: Download JDK 7 binaries from the official Java site.
Problem 2: You are Debian/Ubuntu user and don’t see applicable .deb package.
What to do: Again, download JDK 7 binaries from the official Java site, install and configure it manually.
Step by step instructions to install and manual configure JDK 7 on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (the Lucid Lynx) desktop follow:

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Famous Interview with Thank You Counter Button plugin author

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Famous Interview

Famous Interview

FamousWhy.com interviewed “Thank You Counter Button” WordPress plugin author Vladimir Garagulya:
FW Editor: Can you tell us a few things about ShinePHP; from where this huge passion for PHP and WordPress programming?
Vladimir: ShinePHP is a mean to share with community my experience in Web development field. I try to write posts about things that interesting to me, things, for which I spent some time to investigate, things which I use myself in my work, at my blog. I like PHP and WordPress for its power, mightiness, flexibility and ease of use. I look at the Web applications development as a hobby, not an ordinal, routine job.

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Netbeans IDE 7.0 Milestone 2 for PHP

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Milestone 2

Netbeans IDE 7.0 Milestone 2

October 7th, 2010 the NetBeans Team informed community of changes to the NetBeans roadmap. Next release, NetBeans 6.10, was renamed to NetBeans 7.0. The reason – the change allows the NetBeans IDE versioning to be more clearly aligned with the Java platform. In March 2011, NetBeans 7.0 will provide support for JDK 7 language features and JDK 7 Beta. When JDK 7 production is released a patch release of NetBeans 7.0 should provide support for this final version.
Development version Netbeans 7.0 Milestone 2 is available for download from Download NetBeans IDE 7.0 Milestone 2.
What are the differences between 6th and 7th releases for PHP web developer? New things include Platform (less intrusive checking for external changes when switching between the IDE and other programs), Editor (word wrap, show invisible characters, HTML 5 support features) and PHP support (generate PhpDoc, rename refactoring, safe delete refactoring) changes.

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Gone for summer vacation, 2010

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

On Vacation

On Vacation

I’m gone for summer vacation till August, 8th, 2010. So I will not take part in any discussions and not answer on support questions this period. Any question will be answered after my return in the August, of course. Thank you all for visiting this site, reading my posts, using plugins. Let me take the rest for a month :).
I plan to make a large and interesting trip through the middle and northern Italy by rented car (Roma, Firenze, Bologna, Padova, Venezia, Verona, Milano, Forte dei Marmi, Firenze, Roma). Beautiful, historical places. Are you interested? Please let me know, and I will publish detailed report about this trip with images, descriptions and recomendations for the tourists here. [nothankyou]

Silence is Golden Guard German

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Silence is Golden Guard German

SIG German

German translation for the Silence is Golden Guard WordPress plugin is available with version 1.6 at May 19th, 2010. Thanks to Tom for the help.
Do you have SIG Guard plugin translation in some other language? Share it with other WordPress users.
Some new phrases in existing SIG French and Spanish translation files still need to be translated. Do you wish to help? You are welcome![nothankyou]

WordPress 3.0 Built-in Menu System

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

WordPress 3.0 beta 2

WordPress 3.0 beta 2

Exciting news! WordPress 3.0 becomes nearer and nearer. May 6, 2010 WordPress development blog announced WordPress 3.0 beta 2 availability and left a word about release candidate :).
What’s new in this beta? As declared at the development blog:
* Revised menu user interface;
* Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible.
If you wish to test WordPress 3.0 beta 2 you can download it here.
Let’s see together what we can do with new WordPress 3.0 built-in menu system management interface and how to use it. Example and screenshots use the new WordPress 3.0 default Twentyten theme.

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