Shellshock, the recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to inject code into your machines, puts the *nix systems (Mac OS X or Linux) at a serious risk for malicious attacks.
If you are using S3 as a CDN, you will need to give WordPress’ W3TC plugin access to your AWS account so it can upload files to S3 on behalf of you. The smart way to do this is to create a new AWS user who can only access what they need for W3TC to do its job. Who wants to store the keys to their whole AWS account in their WordPress based site? If that information is retrieved by a hacker, they could do tons of damage. If they only gain access to your site’s specific bucket, there is less damage to be done.
How to download thumbnail images from any video on YouTube, including the auto-generated ones, the low quality ones and the high quality one. Why would you want to download a thumbnail? You might want to use it for a feature image for any theme or web application, for your post or for archive purposes or for any number of reasons.
Great Big Lazy Robot VFX studio short film about planned obsolescence. In this case Apple is referring to without naming it, but is applicable to virtually any agent involved in the current and dominant patterns of production and consumption.
Creative Commons introduce their 4.0 licenses, now available for adoption worldwide. The 4.0 licenses -more than two years in the making- are the most global, legally robust licenses produced by Creative Commons (CC) to date. They have incorporated dozens of improvements that make sharing and reusing CC-licensed materials easier and more dependable than ever before.
The «97 Things Every Programmer Should Know» project, pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners. The collection is intended simply to contain multiple and varied perspectives on what it is that contributors to the project feel programmers should know. This can be anything from code-focused advice to culture, from algorithm usage to agile thinking, from implementation know-how to professionalism, from style to substance, etc.