Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.The all wrong story about comments
It's been a seriously long time since i wrote here. But i can't remember the last time i felt this urge, this itch to write about something. All this time that i haven't updated my blog and i seldom comment on blogs i haven't been all away. I've been reading the usual...
Intrusion detection with Perl
There has been a lot of hype lately concerning WordPress security and vulnerabilities that are out in the open. This is an open source project so the big advantage is that (and i will quote): Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the...
Member Of The Month: July
Since postponing declaring a "Member Of The Month" for last month, this one has been slightly better. I found myself posting a bit more regularly and this gave you guys the chance to come back here and comment. A lot of my regular visitors commented as always, but,...
The VPS neighborhood
The past couple of days i've been bugged with an idea. I saw a new hosting company come around called "EcVPS". They offer VPS plans for very low, and extremely affordable prices. I know that there has always been a gap between shared hosting, which is as low as...
What’s an API for a web service?
You all must have heard of the term "API" but all of the non techy out there should have drowned in trying to understand what it is. First of all, a general definition of the term can be found on Wikipedia. But here i will concentrate on web services, as the mass of...
Efficient or non-efficient?
All of you out there that know me, know that i am an efficiency freak. Most of the times, when someone flashes a plugin to me, i stop and say "is that really necessary?" instead of "this looks cool!". I know, it's mostly annoying but you got to admit, i have a point....
Search feature on static HTML sites – The smart way
You all must have stumbled on static HTML sites. Either you created them or you found them around. The purpose of those sites today is simplicity. Not everybody needs dynamic content and thus not everybody needs complex CMS's with huge back end administration panel....
The acrobatic balance of price and quality on freelancers
Most of you know that for quite some time now I've raised the "for hire" flag. As a freelancer I haven't had much luck, except for a few jobs I've taken and for which i have to tell Kim a great thanks. She always puts a good word out for me and i am very, very...
WordPress plugin competition submission: YANewsflash
As i said on the releasing article of my plugin YANewsflash, i have started the submission process of it to the WordPress plugin competition with this introductory article. As i also said before, i don't think it stands a chance but still, it is a plugin released...
Another plugin of mine: YANewsflash
The past couple of days i had a hype for newsflashes. First i wrote this article on how to do a newsflash without any plugin and now i am releasing one! I know, paranoia, but still i figured that it would help people out. For this plugin, i used the options table...