Monthly Archives: April 2009

PHP Serialize vs Database normalization

Posted on 2009-04-30 by Magnus Lindgren

I’ve recently started developing plugins for WordPress in PHP. Being an old school Perl programmer PHP comes very easy and MySQL is still same old MySQL. PHP don’t have many advantages over Perl in general except one very good one: … Continue reading →

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WordPress as a simple CRM

Posted on 2009-04-14 by Magnus Lindgren

I recently started a new business where I really want to focus on taking care of the customer needs, being proactive rather than reactive to them. As such I need a simple Customer Relations Management (CRM) tool to keep track … Continue reading →

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VISA PIN numbers stolen

Posted on 2009-04-01 by Magnus Lindgren

In one of the worst hacker attacks against on-line resources a hacker managed to get a full listing of all the PIN-numbers associated with VISA credit cards. Apparently also MasterCard and American Express have been compromised. This undermines the whole … Continue reading →

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