in Upgrade or else!:

Okay, people, if you are running any version of WordPress older than 2.3.3*, you need to upgrade now. Seriously. WordPress 2.3.2 and older have security holes that are being actively exploited by hackers to inject spam links into blogs which are not maintained. And search engines like Technorati are de-listing hacked blogs. Are you listening now? Do I have your attention? Upgrade your web apps before you get hacked and your site drops off the search-engine radar.

While the Technorati article specifically talks about WordPress sites, this goes for any web application. You need to pay attention to updates which are released, and upgrade whenever a security probem is fixed. WordPress gets particular attention due to its popularity and the sheer number of installed sites out in the wild. But it is no more or less secure than any other similar web application. So whatever you’re running, keep it up-to-date.

And the same goes for any add-ons — if you install third-part plugins or themes, make sure you keep up with updates. WordPress 2.5 makes updating plugins easier than ever. Review your Plugins page from time to time, and pay attention when it tells you that a newer version of a plugin is available.

read the full article here: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/08/upgrade-or-else

in Upgrade or else!:

Okay, people, if you are running any version of WordPress older than 2.3.3*, you need to upgrade now. Seriously. WordPress 2.3.2 and older have security holes that are being actively exploited by hackers to inject spam links into blogs which are not maintained. And search engines like Technorati are de-listing hacked blogs. Are you listening now? Do I have your attention? Upgrade your web apps before you get hacked and your site drops off the search-engine radar.

While the Technorati article specifically talks about WordPress sites, this goes for any web application. You need to pay attention to updates which are released, and upgrade whenever a security probem is fixed. WordPress gets particular attention due to its popularity and the sheer number of installed sites out in the wild. But it is no more or less secure than any other similar web application. So whatever you’re running, keep it up-to-date.

And the same goes for any add-ons — if you install third-part plugins or themes, make sure you keep up with updates. WordPress 2.5 makes updating plugins easier than ever. Review your Plugins page from time to time, and pay attention when it tells you that a newer version of a plugin is available.

read the full article here: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/08/upgrade-or-else

So the owner of EVEHQ decided to run a contest for EVEHQ application (a tool for EVE-Online players that let them manage their chars skill training, assets, generates reports, map routes and a lot more) at the EVE-GFX website.

The process took nearly 1 month, a lot of artists entered the competion and there was a lot of nice works which also deserved the prize (400 million ISK).
In the end, there was only one winner and it was me. Besides the splash screens the owner also wanted the logo i come up with in the splash screens (the one you see at the top of this post).
I made 5 entries/versions of the splash screens which you can check below.

splash screens: v1 | v2 | v3 | v4 | v5

So the owner of EVEHQ decided to run a contest for EVEHQ application (a tool for EVE-Online players that let them manage their chars skill training, assets, generates reports, map routes and a lot more) at the EVE-GFX website.

The process took nearly 1 month, a lot of artists entered the competion and there was a lot of nice works which also deserved the prize (400 million ISK).
In the end, there was only one winner and it was me. Besides the splash screens the owner also wanted the logo i come up with in the splash screens (the one you see at the top of this post).
I made 5 entries/versions of the splash screens which you can check below.

splash screens: v1 | v2 | v3 | v4 | v5

Here’s the link for the house information: http://www.casaemguimaraes.blogspot.com/

Enjoy! ;)

I joined WASP corporation back in September 2006, since then i engaged in corp pvp tournaments, mining operations etc. A friend of mine told about how to make ISK (eve currency) by making forum signatures and other misc graphics for corporations, which helped me a lot in my evolution as a player. Around january we managed to negociate with some other corps that had sovereignity over a dead-end solar system where we went and lived actively for 4-5 months. It is a good system, it had a serpentis complex and some nice asteroids for mining. In june a new project stared up for the eve players that often made signatures for other players; EVE Graphics Team was born. For the next couple of months I went kinda inactive mainly because college was taking way too much time. I came back in late august/early september and everything was a little bit different. We kinda stopped living low-sec and moved back to empire, i had a talk with my CEO and convinced him about applying to join a major alliance set in deep 0.0 space since i knew a guy there, i was given permission to start the negotiations and a couple of weeks later we were accepted.

So, basically, my corp now is set in 0.0 in a big alliance known as Interstellar Starbase Syndicate (ISS) and is very active in PVP.
For those interested in knowing more about this alliace visit eve-spirit.com. If you’re looking for someone who can make you some pretty cool forum signatures, website layouts, killboard banners etc feel free to contact me by EVE-Mail (char name: JadeO), my portfolio is available here.

For some reason unknown to me (and apparently, unknown to Sun(tm)) Java gives you this error when you try to update/install a newer version of it’s JRE. After a good 30mins of beating the crap out of my computer trying to install JRE without this annoying error i found a way to do it. Simply download this file: JDK 6u1 with JRE.

Run it and you’re good to go! :)

Then the 2nd semester in college started. God damn it that screwed me. After 1 week i had a crap load of works to do, projects to start developping and a huge amount of classes to attend to.
So basically i haven’t managed to finish any of the stuff i started. The only thing i’ve made in a somewhat regular basis were the signatures.

I have no idea when i’m going to finish them.. plus i still want to make some stuff for wordpress (one of them being coding the Calendar plugin from scratch) but honestly i don’t know if i’ll have enough time to do this in the near future.

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