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By Giedrius Majauskas on December 30, 2009
Antivirus live is a rogue antispyware application on the same platform like cyber security and system security. It infects system by drive-by-downloads, shareware or infected websites. The difference is that Antivirus live uses a bit more complex way to protect its executables against removal and removal software. First of all, Antivirus live enables proxy server [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged antivirus live |
By Giedrius Majauskas on December 30, 2009
Typically, all popular wordpress themes come with html comments to mark endings of div block. This is required for theme developers as it is much easier to see where particular block ends. However, I do not like leaving code like that in production site. Although some claim that HTML comments have no effect in SEO, [...]
Posted in Programming |
By Giedrius Majauskas on December 22, 2009
Sometimes friends and clients complain about competing sites that should not be there: No obvious optimization Content is crappy, mentions term once and in very different context Few or no links Design is old and ugly However, such site is in the first page and sometimes quite high in results. So, what are the reasons [...]
Posted in SEM |
By Giedrius Majauskas on December 9, 2009
Last month I took over support of one project that inspired this post. It is a website with couple static pages, news and galleries that was created with Joomla. The problem was that site owners could not support it. They are not computer savvy and the internal structure of admin panel is way too complex [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming, usability |
By Giedrius Majauskas on November 11, 2009
Recently, I had simple but interesting problem on wordpress where I could not find ready automatic solution: thumbnail generation based on image ratio. I use wordpress as CMS for image-heavy site. For example, I want that 3 sized images: For landscape pictures I need 202×133 thumbnails For square (or alike) images I need 156×142 thumbnails [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged wordpress |
By Giedrius Majauskas on November 2, 2009
Email marketing is still useful for list builders and keeping in touch with your consumers. However, quite often communication is lost in the email Spam box and not read by recipient. How to solve this problem? Here are some tips. Your server and domain First thing I would check is the spammy IP list. Is [...]
Posted in Programming, SEM |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 12, 2009
Security Tool is a rogue antivirus scam, using generic name for disguise. Together with Cyber Security, they are hitting computers hard and forcing users into buying their “full” versions to remove non-existing virus infections. Typically, Security tool states that one’s PC is infected with Spyware.IEMonster or similar parasites, however, the real infections are very different. [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged Security Tool |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 10, 2009
I have a very mixed feelings about one issue in anti-spyware community. That is how products are marketed as free. During the years as I work in the industry, there were a large amount of products marketed as free despite the fact that their important features are paid ones. Typically, this was the remover itself. [...]
Posted in Security |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 3, 2009
I have read a tweet about PHP programming today that made me furious. “Handling complex logic in PHP is like doing the LSATs after shock therapy” What is wrong with this statement? It moves responsibility from coder to the coding language and that is completely wrong in this case. Firstly, PHP has syntax similar to [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged php, software quality |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 1, 2009
Sometime we get a new inexperienced guy in a company as a programmer. Typically, we test them beforehand; however they are rarely perfect when started. Sometimes they are very new to programming or have bad habits from previous programming jobs. Thus it is my goal to help them to improve. And sometimes it gets really [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming |
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