If there is one thing I strongly believe is tapping the power of the Internet to learn. It is with always with great happiness that everything I have learnt in the past ten years (since I got online) has been only through tutorial sites.
Here are a list of some of that where you can quickly [...]

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Ajay on August 17th, 2008

WordPress 2.6.1 was released two days back. This has been termed as an Optional Upgrade for users. However, this upgrade has fixed over 60 bugs.
The main updates are improved right-left language support as well fixing of a gettext bug, permalink fixes for IIS users and fix for image insertion problem in the Press This feature [...]

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Ajay on January 16th, 2007

The WordPress team has just released WordPress 2.0.7.
It fixes a PHP security problem. This problem effects only certain versions of PHP. It also fixes the Feedburner issue I reported earlier.
If you haven’t upgraded to even 2.0.6, I recommend that you upgrade your blog ASAP, because all versions prior to 2.0.6 have a big security bug.
If [...]

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Ajay on January 11th, 2007

This one is for PHP developers out there. I started getting my hands dirty with PHP about a year and half back when I started developing WordPress plugins and themes.
Given my little exposure, I’ve still got a long way to go to even call myself a “PHP Developer”. And hence this article is ideal for [...]

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Ajay on November 13th, 2006

The Gallery team has just released v1.5.5.
It includes some bug fixes. There are no security updates but it is recommended that you upgrade your installation if you are using Gallery 1.
I use Gallery 2 and am waiting for their latest release which is supposed to be a lot better.
Download the update »

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Ajay on November 1st, 2006

Secunia Advisories reports that Kacper has found a vulnerability in the Spider Friendly module for phpBB
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.3.10 of the module, with the possibility that other versions may also be affected.
It is reported to be Highly Critical.
Input passed to the “phpbb_root_path” parameter in admin/modules_data.php is not properly verified before being used [...]

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Ajay on October 30th, 2006

Simple Machines has just released a security patch for SMF.
This release addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the search function.
The fix for the 1.0.x has been released as 1.0.9. The version number of 1.1RC3 has remained as is, but you need to download and update your SMF installation ASAP!
Just last week my forum was hacked. [...]

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