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WordPress Configuration Tips

When Setting up WordPress for the first time there are a few things you may need to do

Switch off WordPress comment
There is a simple way to shut down the comment system on a WordPress site. Turn off the comments on the Settings, Discussion page, Default article settings, which will disable comments on new [...]

Institution of Analysts and Programmers Spring Seminar

This year’s Spring meeting of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers will be based at the Museum in Docklands, close to Canary Wharf. Since its regeneration Docklands has become a hub for high-tech business. It contributes a major slice of Britain’s wealth, and provides employment for a lot of IAP members.

The IAP Spring Seminars have [...]

India protects traditional medicines from foreign patents

In the first step by a developing country to stop multinational companies patenting traditional remedies from local plants and animals, the Indian government has effectively licensed 200,000 local treatments as “public property” free for anyone to use but no one to sell as a “brand”.

The move comes after scientists in Delhi noticed an alarming trend [...]

Diversity standard set by Avon and Somerset Probation

Avon and Somerset Probation Area have continued to set the standard within the Probation Service nationally for Diversity practice and have been ranked 18th overall in the top 100 employers by Stonewall. As a Probation Diversity Champion, they have demonstrated the success of their diversity policies and the extent to which they encourage job [...]

More on the fight against Leprosy

There is a new posting on the End leprosy Now website which outlines the effect of stigmatization on the efforts to end Leprosy. Check out The Stigma of Leprosy in India

We also came across a Research Article entitled Development and Validation of a Severity Scale for Leprosy Type 1 Reactions
The contributors conclude they have [...]

Increasing the File Upload Size on IIS

Last week a user reported a problem with a file upload on our Intranet which has otherwise performed flawlessly for years. They browsed to the file and selected it as normal, but when they clicked upload “nothing happened”. This is an in-house developed Content Management System, written in classic ASP, and the user is a [...]

Check out The Fabulous Website Chick

We came across this site the other day while browsing a bulletin board, and were very impressed. It deserves an award just for the shear pinkness of it’s WordPress theme, but there is some interesting content and useful Internet marketing tips too. It just shows what you can do with WordPress and some [...]

Downtime for phpBB.com and Server Compromise

Today we made a routine visit to visit the PHPBB site to check out for any new bulletin board styles to download, and were surprised to see a message reporting that they have been attacked and the site is down. This is attributed to a 0-day-exploit in their PHPList installation.

For those new to [...]

Successful Development with Agile Methodologies

The term Agile is one of the buzz words in the Business Analysis press at the moment. Agile methodologies promote a project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation. It uses a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, and a set of engineering best practices that allow for rapid delivery of [...]

A day in the life of a WordPress Blogger

Sometimes we work for customers who have high security environments, with restrictive settings that can cause problems for developers. An example recently occurred after a Microsoft security scare, and the security policy was tightened to exclude ActiveX controls and client side scripting. When I noticed the dreaded Information Bar drop down on IE7 [...]