After a quick investigation, I found that some javascript had been injected into some of the pages of my blog and unfortunately some of my visitors may have been infected. Hopefully they had antivirus software to block the attack. Since I take security very seriously, I outsourced the removal of the injected javascript to Sucuri.net who promptly investigated the issue and has since removed the malware.

The one positive that has come out of this, is that I have now decided to continue with Sucuri’s malware monitoring service to ensure that this type of malware injection doesn’t go unnoticed in the future. Their malware monitoring service now provides as often as hourly monitoring of my sites files and immediate notification if the site was to ever be compromised again.

Apologies to any users who were affected by this attack. We can all learn a lesson from this type of attack as they are becoming more widely spread particularly with popular platforms like WordPress.

sudo port install git-core +svn +doc

but it is recommend to compile your own from source so you get the latest version. Check out this guide to installing GIT on OS X Tiger.

Toolman Tim has a guide on how to setup a new rails app with GIT.

This role is for a website designer but you need to be very creative for this role. If you have a smashing portfolio, then you might be just the person they are looking for.

The core of your work will be in designing websites for Click2it clients from scratch, and integration with our content management system when required. You will also undertake some email design work and banner design.

To qualify you must be able to present examples of web work that showcases your abilities to design and build web sites. You should also be able to demonstrate an ability to work independently.

Skills required:

• Advanced Web Design skills
• Proficiency in Adobe apps (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks)
• Knowledge of Flash & Actionscripting and advantage
• XHTML and CSS (W3C web standards compliant)
• Basic understanding of dynamic and scripting languages like PHP, JavaScript (Ajax)
• Experience with CMS and Email Marketing tools

The salary is dependant on experience. Early to mid July Start.

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If your a new to rails, development, and source code control then this tutorial will hopefully make things a little easier to get your head around and you’ll find it’s quite easy to get started. For this tutorial, I’ve used a free subversion account with beanstalkapp.com which is easy to setup and use and gives you one free subversion repository to get started. Later you can upgrade your account to include SSL encryption and more for a few bucks a month

Before you start… you need to have rails and subversion already installed. This tutorial doesn’t show you how to install them. It just shows you how to use subversion with beanstalkapp.com. I also don’t show how to ignore files in subversion, often Rails developers ignore log files so they aren’t uploaded to the subversion repository.

This subversion tutorial is done on a Mac using the Unix command line terminal. If you have windows, you’ll need to setup your machine with a Unix style command line.

Watch the Subversion using Beanstalk Tutorial

The tutorial is one of my first so it’s a little rough around the edges. Any feedback would be great and any suggestions as to what you might want to see in another tutorial. If there’s enough interest, I’ll consider doing more video tutorials related to web design and development. Post any comments… good, bad or otherwise below.

If your like me, you buy every coding book under the sun and have a bookshelf of tech books right at your finger tips. Funnily enough I have a copy of the 2nd Edition but never spent much time actually using it partly from not having enough time and not long after purchasing the book I moved from Tiger to Leopard which became a problem because of the new version of Xcode and other changes.

Well I’ve started reading the third edition from the start, and the third edition from a beginners perspective is great. The examples are easy to follow and reading the code samples and instructions on how and why they work just makes sense.  You will however find it much easier if you know another language as Cocoa applications are programmed using the Objective C language.

This new book covers all the latest features of programming in Cocoa including Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, core data, the garbage collector, and core animation. If your interesting in starting application development for the Mac, then this is the book for you

Although Linux has a huge following for the diehard linux user, I personally don’t know anyone who uses it for a day to day operating system. I love the Linux movement and look forward to when Linux is truly a desktop ready operating system for anyone other than advanced users. I know there are going to be people who say I’m wrong, however I’m only basing my opinion on my own experiences and of those people I know.

Until that day, my MacBook Pro is my best friend.

So today I’m going to talk about how I needed to include a post category on a post page. A client required each post to have a header above the post with the posts category name nicely styled with CSS above the post. After a read though the WordPress documentation and some experimentation, I ended up with the the_category tag and what I thought would be the solution to my problem.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t entirely correct as the_category tag causes the category name to be a link text as well which wasn’t what I wanted. So I dugg around the WordPress docs and forums to try to find how this could be done. It wasn’t long before I found others looking for the same solution and responded to their own problem post with… ‘it’s ok, I’ve worked it out’. That’s right… they didn’t put how they solved the problem which is why I couldn’t resist writing about this. So here is the solution…

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
echo $category->cat_name . ' ';
}
?>

Many developers from beginners to advanced are trying ruby on rails. If your like me, you’ll be doing most of your rails coding on a Mac. If you were a Windows user who has recently switched to the Mac for Rails development, you might find the amount of terminal usage in Rails development a little intimidating.

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to work with a corporate company running UNIX so I had the opportunity to learn enough UNIX basics to be reasonably comfortable working with the terminal and the command line in Mac OSX.

If your installing Ruby on Rails on your Mac, then Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic has the best tutorials to get the installation done right. Dan really knows his stuff when it comes to that sometimes terrifying terminal, so you’ll find his installation guides a breath of fresh air.

Before you start that rails installation, I encourage you to read Dan’s article on setting your applications to install in usr/local rather than the default. The more you understand about why things are done the way they are, the easier you’ll find the rest of your rails experience.

Patrick has been in the web development business for year and is the CEO of development firm limited-overhead.

So is there a catch with the book being free?  Well no but you will have to complete a form to add your email address so you can be sent a link for the book.  If you don’t like being subscribed, you can always easily unsubscribe later.

Well worth the download.  Go get em cause time is ticking!

The way it works is by applying the property text-shadow to your selector ie: h1. Here is a you could write your CSS.

h1 {   color: black;

   text-shadow: #ccc 2px 0.2em 3px;

}

The values in the text shadow property example above are #ccc which defines the colour of the shadow, 2px determines how deep the depth of shadow, 0.2em defines how far right (or left using negative values) the shadow will be, and the 3px defines the amount of blur to be applied.

Here is a sample of how text-shadow looks providing your browser is capable of rendering the text-shadow property. Firefox, Opera & IE6 & 7 all don’t render the text-shadow property, however Safari for Windows & Mac work great.

This would produce a nice drop shadow on your text heading just giving to give you the effect that your headings have a little depth to them. The only downside to the text-shadow property is that it doesn’t work on browsers that aren’t CSS2 compatible but we should be seeing more of this kind of thing as browsers improve and add more CSS functionality.