Archive for August, 2005

Server Security - phpBB

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

I was recently called in to stop a server attack in progress. The perpetrators were bombing a phpBB forum with a really bad setup in place. Simple tweaks like requiring users to have an account before posting messages and requiring them to verify email before they could post quieted the rebellion.
Another useful method to quiet […]

URL Rewriting

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

URL Rewriting is the act of changing dynamic pages which include ?’s in the URL (such as index.php?uid=234&article=829) into search friendly URLs that help people understand what the page is about, and which allow Search Engines to spider all of your pages.
If you store lots of good search engine fodder on your forums and bulletin […]

XML Product Feeds

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

BizRate, Froogle, Shopping.com all offer a way to show your products on their site. Instead of paying a fortune to get people to