February 2007 - Posts

Hacked
Boy that was fun. Getting a bunch of emails that we had been hacked and tracking down someone updating all of our link addresses with their name. Fortunately it didn't take too long to fix, but it certainly was a pain.

I know we're vulnerable to SQL Injection in quite a few places, but not sure how much fun this will be to fix.

Posted 22 February 2007 11:38 by Steve Jones | 2 comment(s)

SP2
Mentioned by Tim Mitchell, but SP2 is out.

Seems more like enhancements to make things smoother and lots of changes in response to complaints I've seen voiced by people. I think the relatively small number of bug issues addresses speaks to the amazing work that has been done on this product to date.

Posted 20 February 2007 17:30 by Steve Jones | with no comments

Guest Editorial Week
I've been writing the editorials for over two years now and it's become an almost daily part of my life. I say almost daily because I learned after 6 or 7 hard months that I need to try and get ahead a couple of days, especially when I'm busy or because there are days I don't feel like writing. Seems like the days I'm stuck for an editorial, I have sick kids, or my wife is out of town, or some other event that can easily disrupt my life and cause a bunch of stress.

So this week I'm getting a bit of a break. Not that I didn't have to get some hard work out of the way the last couple weeks, but I have 4 of my 6 editorials this week from guest writers. Tony Davis of Red Gate writes the Database Daily one and I have 3 woman giving different perspectives on women in IT, including my wife.

It's funny that as nice as it is to have a break, I kind of miss writing them.

Posted 11 February 2007 10:10 by Steve Jones | with no comments