Emanuele Feronato
Keep your WordPress Blog (or any site) clean with new Google Webmaster Tools
Yesterday I blogged about 10 ways to secure your WordPress blog Today I found a new, important tool to keep your blog (or site) clean: Google Webmaster Tools and its new services “Fetch as Googlebot” and “Malware details”. Once you enter into Webmaster Tools you will find on the left Dashboard sidebar a Labs item … Keep your WordPress Blog (or any site) clean with new Google Webmaster Tools
10 ways to secure your WordPress blog
Find out how InfoSec Institute can help you receive your CISSP Certification and become an IT professional. As old readers know, my blog has been hacked several times. You can read about my first hack and what to do when your blog has a virus, but now it’s time to prevent hackers from injecting malware … 10 ways to secure your WordPress blog
JQuery powered lights off effect
A couple of days ago a fan of my Facebook page asked me for a script to make the effect you see on this page. Obviously simply reverse-engineering the script wouldn’t be enough for me, so I decided to create a lights off effect that make any content in a given div remain highlighted while … JQuery powered lights off effect
Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 5
Welcome to the 5th step. Let’s make a small recap: Step 1: Creation of the application itself Step 2: Publishing a text on the user’s status Step 3: Publishing text, links and images on the user’s wall Step 4: Inviting friends to use the application Now it’s time to make the application post a notification … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 5
WordPress plugin prototype to check the date and time that wp files have been last modified
Like some of you noticed during these days, my blog was hacked. Someone injected an encoded javascript code into my footer.php theme making my site open an iframe with some badware. The same old things that happen when you’re famous :) The boring part of this story is now I check for my WP files … WordPress plugin prototype to check the date and time that wp files have been last modified
Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – Step 4
The best way to do some viral marketing through Facebook is using inite forms to allow users to share applications with their friends who might not have otherwise known about them. Since users are invited to use applications by friends, they are (at the moment) likely to view each invite request, providing them an opportunity … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – Step 4
Basic Box2D rope
It’s time to create a rope with Box2d. To start defining a rope, we’ll start from something similar: a chain. A chain is a series of two or more connected links. The smaller and closer the links, the more flexible the chain. So we can define a rope as a “perfect chain”, with infinite links. … Basic Box2D rope
Halloween and the tropical storm Ketsana
What happens on Saturday, October 31st? It’s Halloween. I bet there is a lot of games under development with an Halloween theme. I am developing my own Halloween game too, but it’s not the point of this post. I noticed in some (most) Halloween games there is quite a large use of this set of … Halloween and the tropical storm Ketsana
Introducing Box2D filtering
In Box2D, normally every object collides with other objects in the stage. But sometimes we may need a way to make an object collide with only certain objects, ignoring the rest. I am not talking about sensors, but real objects that won’t collide with certain other objects. This feature can be done with filtering. Collision … Introducing Box2D filtering
Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 3
In step 1 we created a simple Facebook application, and in step 2 we made our application able to write on the wall Now it’s time to add images and more text to users’ wall when they run the application. This is what I am creating: I know I wrote “appliction”… but it was a … Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 3
Rendering joints with Box2D
In most Box2D projects you can see how to render bodies or attach objects to them, but I couldn’t see any tutorial about rendering joints. If you look at the classic rendering loop it’s something like this one for (var bb:b2Body = m_world.m_bodyList; bb; bb = bb.m_next) { if (bb.m_userData is Sprite) { bb.m_userData.x = … Rendering joints with Box2D
