MindPalette

22/10/2016

Looks like an important security patch for Joomla is scheduled for Tuesday 10/25. Be ready to update. If your Joomla site is managed by us, it will be taken care of ASAP once the patch is available: https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5677-important-security-announcement-pre-release-364.html

A Joomla 3.6.4 release containing a security fix will be published on Tuesday 25th October at approximately 14:00 UTC.

21/10/2016

The current DDoS attack appears to still be going on... I'm currently not able to access GitHub, Twitter and many more. If your site is using PayPal and is having trouble processing payments, this is probably why: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37728015

Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Soundcloud and several other sites have been affected by two web attacks.

22/10/2015

Be sure to update any Joomla sites ASAP after 10am EST today.

Joomla 3.4.5 release containing a security fix will publish Thursday 22nd October at approximately 14:00 UTC .

02/11/2014

An ugly Drupal hack: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29846539

Software firm Drupal warns millions to "assume" they have been hacked if they have not applied a patch for a recently discovered bug.

09/06/2014

http://lifehacker.com/lego-figures-make-perfect-cable-holders-1586830454?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Who knew that LEGO designed their figures' hands perfectly to hold Apple lightning and other types of cables? Stick a LEGO brick on your desk, attach LEGO figure(s), and, voilà, an ingenious cord-catching solution.

10/05/2014

If any of you are still using our old/archived form processing script (ProcessForm PHP), I just posted an important security patch update. Please update your copy. http://www.mindpalette.com/archives/processform/

16/04/2014

For anyone with a site hosted on our server, HostGator is down again, with network issues, sorry.

11/04/2014

FYI, for anyone that has a website hosted on our server, we did NOT have the affected software versions on our server, so no action needed there (aside from it being a good idea to occasionally change passwords anyway). Here's is more info on the bug:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/

Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch to fix the Heartbleed bug.

31/12/2013

Looks like HostGator is having a network outage again. If you have a website on one of my servers and it's currently down, that's what's up, sorry.

20/11/2013

To any of you with sites on my server, looks like HostGator is having network issues again, so all websites are currently down (and any connected email accounts). You can send me messages here, or my GMail address: [email protected]

02/01/2013

While working on an e-commerce system, I needed to use PHP to round a number to a minimum number of decimal places, but allow for more if needed. For instance, if the value was 1.2, I’d want it rendered as $1.20, but if it was 1.256, I’d want it to keep the precision and render as $1.256. I ended up...