Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.
The problem with Web security is that, as [...]

Task: Take as input name of a directory on a Windows machine containing Microsoft Excel (xls) documents. Convert them to csv files. Process these csv files to normalize them into a single, standard csv format. Load these files into a PostgreSQL database. Tools available: Windows, Linux (Debian), and PostgreSQL. Result: success (as described below).
Mount Windows [...]

Today we have a pretty cool blog/CMS theme originally designed by Rambling Soul, which I then ported to WordPress. At first glance this may look like a relatively ordinary blog theme, but it has a few interesting features which will be gone over below. This theme is coded for WordPress 2.7 and above [...]

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With the success of WordPress, there have been thousands of developers working on the project to help members make the most of the “open” platform of developing plugins and widgets to extend the system to new heights.
Event though there are many that come into good use, there are a few that users have consistently said [...]

Bloggingstream is a multi-use premium WordPress theme from WooThemes that could be used as a personal blog or a magazine / news website. The theme features an integrated lifestream, 2 different layout options, 7 ad spaces to help you make money, a theme options page, 11 different colour schemes and more.

Features

2 different layout [...]

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see.
The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few [...]

Affiliate Theme is an affiliate site creation tool for WordPress. The Affiliate Theme from Unique Blog Designs allows you to easily build a wide variety of dynamic affiliate marketing landing pages and websites using WordPress. The WordPress Affiliate theme comes with 30 pre-made backgrounds and 30 pre-made headers, and the ability to change every [...]

Snapshot is a showcase-style theme, suitable for portfolio websites or photo galleries. It’s a rare free theme release from the WooThemes team, who usually produce paid WordPress themes exclusively. I’ll be going over this free WordPress theme in a review post.

And now onto the review…

My Expectations
Aside from a clean looking showcase-style design, I’m [...]