Someone does Government 2.0 style – OpenCongress is live, complete with "Beta" sunsplash thingy and a few gray gradients. This, along with The Open House Project, seem to be built on top of the data provided by govtrack.us. Will it make a difference? Will you use it to track any issue, industries, or your local […]
What are some strategies for keeping track of comments you leave on other people’s blogs? Knowing when someone replies to an interesting comment encourages discussion and participation. Some feeds provide comment feeds, for the site as a whole or for individual posts, but before long you might end up with dozens of feeds in your
Roger Johansson’s post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning. Here it’s 2007 and we’re still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve – images for text headers (is there anything less useful?). Web professionals who refuse to
You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this latest Mac advertisement, but you’d be fooling yourself. But judging by the comments in Very Severe Hole" in Vista UAC Design, its really a documentary, not an ad. What’s the giant security hole – oh yeah – any installer automatically runs with administrator
I’ve been using Subversion heavily lately to keep my live and development sites synchronized and its been a huge productivity booster. I had to move some code over to a lite site for work this evening and it was such a pain, because I had to go through and figure out the files I needed
Under debian, fail2ban’s configuration is in /etc/fail2ban/. In the filter.d directory add the following file and name it apache-modsec.conf. [Definition]# Option: failregex# Notes.: regex to match the password failure messages in the logfile. The# host must be matched by a group named “host”. The tag “<HOST>” can# be used for standard IP/hostname matching.# Values: TEX#failregex