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Re: How To Create A Simple REST API in PHP? Step By Step Guide!

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:24:17 -0000

If we never trust user input, shouldn't we sanitize the user-provided ID for 6.2 readOne() (and other places)?

Excellent tutorial! I've learned a lot.

// prepare query statement $stmt = $this->conn->prepare( $query ); // sanitize $this->id=htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($this->id)); // bind id of product to be updated $stmt->bindParam(1, $this->id);

Re: WATCH GIVEAWAY: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150m From WatchBox

Paul Zagoridis — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:22:15 -0000

Thanks for the competition I like a bracelet year round, but I've also had watches with a leather strap year round. I don't really swap straps. I live where it never snows so weather isn't an issue.

Re: Reduce Fail2ban Memory Usage

Paul Zagoridis — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:03:20 -0000

Thanks I'll try it. It's using 1.15GB on my dev system

Re: Photographer Discreetly Captures Roadside Prostitutes as They Wait for Customers

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:58:00 -0000

You are right - there is no reasonable claim to privacy in the public space.

The objectionable, cowardly and foul part of this is that the photographer made his subterfuge part of the narrative.

He uses his disguise as a selling point on the series.

Re: Photographer Discreetly Captures Roadside Prostitutes as They Wait for Customers

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:50:00 -0000

No! The body of work isn't the offensive issue here. As the resident village idiot Tobias W. states, they are women in public space.

It is the additional notes by the "artist" that are offensive. Txema is a professional photographer. He labelled the women as prostitutes. He "knew" they probably didn't want to be photographed. He hired an assistant to hold a surveyors pole. He disguised himself as a surveyor. He chose not to take/publish photos with the client.

An artist should have the integrity and the cajones to hold his camera up, take the photo, and then deal with any subject who took offence at his actions.

Instead he came, as pickpocket, "what they won't miss, won't hurt them". Worse he brags about his subterfuge to promote his "art".

At least Matisse, Bellocq, Sothern and others spoke to their subjects and found common ground and consent.

Re: How to Find Temporary Files in Mozilla Thunderbird

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:15:34 -0000

Thanks for the link to zagz

Re: Non Sequitur Fridays: Desktop Zero

Paul Zagoridis — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 03:42:39 -0000

I'll get to desktop zero before I get to inbox zero. So thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Re: Urbanspoon vs Eatability vs Dimmi vs Yelp-Which sites refer the most traffic to restaurant websites?

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:37:35 -0000

I see this data is for April 2014 if you read the article about Eatability closing it's mentioned and updated there

Re: Urbanspoon vs Eatability vs Dimmi vs Yelp-Which sites refer the most traffic to restaurant websites?

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:35:03 -0000

Yes please +1 to a date on the blog entries. I don't want to go searching through the month year archives to find the article

Re: Menulog commission to increase after Just Eat Acquisition

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:25:26 -0000

I love the idea of FROLO, and will recommend it to all restaurants that I eat at. As a consumer, I open the Menulog app to see what I feel like.

Please create a database website of your FROLO clients and hopefully an app (even if it's just a responsive version of the website). Keep it free if you can. Allow diners to sort by location and/or cuisine type.

Re: Consumers Prefer Better Looking Websites

Paul Zagoridis — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:27:31 -0000

More self serving BS from establishment experts.

I had a wholesale catalogue/ecommerce site in 2003 that was generating 100 orders a month and thousands of B2B pageviews.

A friend who designed Visa's direct mail pieces said it wasn't professional enough and I should pull the site until it was redesigned to look modern and professional. So we pulled it not realising it ranked top 3 in Google for 100's of relevant keywords.

After 2 months of the new "improved" professional site we pulled it and went back to the old one.

In all fairness it looks like the copy-editor overreached the study's findings in equating "better navigation" with "better looking".

My 1st law of ecommerce: Put a landline phone number on the site. Let the 2% of people call you.

My 2nd law of ecommerce: Put the owner's or manager's name on the website.

That engenders trust.

Re: http://www.steverubel.me/post/6399723425

Paul Zagoridis — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:34:25 -0000

Actually more of them are bots and marketers than lurkers.

Re: Everything Uses DISQUS

Paul Zagoridis — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:28:09 -0000

Except I have to enable Third Party Cookies to use DISQus. And I'm not about to do that.

Re: MonkeyChow now with WordPress support

Paul Zagoridis — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:31:32 -0000

Thanks for the quick response. The heart surgery sounds interesting. I'll fix it myself if I can, if not I'll wait for the multiuser version.

Re: MonkeyChow now with WordPress support

Paul Zagoridis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:14:13 -0000

It looks like init.php is hard coded as well.
$sql = "select aging from feeds where id='$id'";
$sql = "delete from items where `feed_id`=$id and `star`!=1 and `read`=1 and to_days(CURDATE()) - to_days(`timestamp`) > $keep_days";

I'm using the 9 November tarball

Re: MonkeyChow now with WordPress support

Paul Zagoridis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:59:34 -0000

I am using a custom prefix in my install ("wp_mc_") and got the error Creating indexes...
Can't create index. Mysql says: Table 'user763_blog.items' doesn't exist

In install.php line 135 I had to change it to
if(!fof_do_query("ALTER TABLE `$FOF_ITEM_TABLE` ADD INDEX `feed_id_idx` ( `feed_id` )", 1) && mysql_errno() != 1061)

similar for line 140

the items table name is hard coded in those lines instead of taking the value from config.php

Re: Dear Kevin Rudd, Re: The Car Industry

Paul Zagoridis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:23:36 -0000

Ford, GM and Chrysler have asked Congress for $25 Bn bailout overnight. GM could run out of cash in weeks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

Re: Mel Gibson and the case of the suspected Russian Mistress

Paul Zagoridis — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:28:00 -0000

Sorry Duncan It's still showing up on the web as
Category: Celebrity News, Technology Author : Samantha DeWitt Posted: November 12, 2008

Not that I object.

Re: Dear Kevin Rudd, Re: The Car Industry

Paul Zagoridis — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:51:29 -0000

Duncan, what a wonderful idea, please print it out and send via snail mail to the PM, Cabinet, the opposition and main stream media. They pay more attention to communication with stamps as it is tracked and can bite them on the backside in the future.

Sadly the detail of the "$6.2 Billion" is a typical government shell game.

The next Federal election must be held on or before 16 April 2011.

The key measure of the $6.2bn is the new scheme:
"A better-targeted, greener, $3.4 billion assistance program, the Automotive Transformation Scheme (ATS), running from 2011 to 2020;"

So that's if the Labor Party wins the next election.

If we discount that $3.4 billion by the current 10 year bond rate (to cover 2011 to 2020) then discount it again by the current 3 year bond rate before it starts, we get down to between $2.2b and $2.3b in today's dollars (that's not necessarily the best practice but it makes the point).

If you check the ALP web page for the A new car plan for a greener future you'll see the other measures, but they're mostly small potatoes.

Lastly do we want the Australian government owning GM? Have they run any government owned businesses well? Surely the future fund will consider the investment,

US car manufacturers carry a lot of unfunded pension liabilities and have been complaining they cannot compete by manufacturing cars in the USA. Toyota on the other hand has 13 plants in the USA and another being build in Mississippi.

Porsche used that poor sentiment in the investment community to fleece hedge funds of about $40 Billion see http://www.wealthesteem.org...

Re: Thunderbird has landed

Paul Zagoridis — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:25:20 -0000

It worked for me on my iBook G4 in Australia.

I used Peter's syntax and Rolando's procedure in comment #3 above.

To be clear you can either edit prefs.js OR use Preferences > Advanced > edit
to add the following keys

user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.description", "OS X");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType", 3);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.uri", "moz-abOSXdirectory:///");

I also prefer the third option to not refer to a foo directory, but that's a personal choice I think