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: simplicity. I have always tried to write simple code, not simple in the sense that [...]

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 of my promises and contacts. There are probably many simple CRM tools available but I [...]

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 system of PIN code and credit card to ensure the safety of you money. Since [...]