Category: Tech

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Hello world! (again)

On April 11, 2017, I began the processes of switching out my old RavenNuke CMS ver 2.5.1 (circa 2007-2017) on codyg.ca, for a brand new WordPress 4.7.3, with a 2017 theme. The surprising thing was that the old CMS had lasted this long, but I wasn’t using it much, as I had gone over to FB by 2009.  I loved the procedural php that was from those days of old!  So there it was.  However, this year has become a WP banner year for me and I have instantiated more than a half dozen new sites since Christmas.  I’m on a roll.

Over the next few weeks, I will massage the old tables into new tables. I will add old and new content, fix styles, and create some new galleries.  I will finesse.  For your part, when revisiting a page, depending on your browser settings, do make full use of your refresh button. After the rebuild is complete the plan is to test a few homegrown plugins and integrate my posts on both FB and my own blog.  Stay tuned.

And, as always, I give candy for bug identifications.

Hugs all round,

Catherin (Cody) Gregory

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RN version 2.10.01

RavenNuke(tm) Version 2.10.01 Released!

RavenNuke(tm)Finally! A bundled RavenNuke(tm) distribution (based from nuke v7.6) with all of the latest patches installed as well as the latest NukeSentinel(tm) release (2.5.08 as of this writing) and more. This FULL release is basically a fix pack release only – with all fixes to any known issues since v2.10.00 was released – No new features. Simply ftp the files, make a few changes in configuration files, run the installer, and you have a site with all the protection that this one does!

Read all about it and post all questions/comments in the RavenNuke(tm) Support Forums

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Study finds that females outnumber males, online in U.S

Last Updated: Friday, April 13, 2007 | 10:27 AM ET
CBC News

Bucking the perception of the internet as a male-dominated world, a study released this week found more women than men are going online in the United States.

An estimated 97.2 million females aged 3 and older will be online in 2007, or 51.7 per cent of the total online population in the U.S., according to a report by eMarketer.

The report, Women Online: Taking a New Look, suggests female internet usage has been ahead of male usage for some time. But now, eMarketer said, other researchers such as comScore Media Matrix, Arbitron and
Edison Media Research support the same conclusion.

According to eMarketer, female usage of the internet in the U.S. has risen 12.4 per cent since 2000, compared with 3.2 percent for males.  In 2011, 109.7 million U.S. females are projected to be online, amounting to 51.9 percent of the online population.

However, women don’t appear to be as enamored of online video as their male counterparts, the study found. Only 66 percent of the estimated 97.2 million females online watch videos, compared with 78 percent of the 90.9 million men.

The author of the eMarketer report said the change in demographics could affect trends in content and usage of the web. ” For girls who have grown up with technology, there is no significant gender gap in internet usage,” said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson. ” The rise of activities that are particularly appealing to young females, such as social networking, will result in even greater usage.”

Studies that look at only adult populations still find more men online than women in the U.S.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project from April 2006 reported 74 percent of adult males in the U.S. were online, compared with 71 percent of women.

A Statistics Canada study of adults conducted in 2005 found a minuscule difference in usage between the sexes, with 68 percent of men versus 67.8 percent of women counting as internet users.

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Upgrading the RavenNuke – ver 2.1 is released!

I’ve upgraded 4 sites in the past couple of weeks … tons of work, but it is so worth it.  Finally, after years of treading water in the nuke darkness, here is a cms with logic, clarity, security and a heart.
RavenNuke 2.1 Rocks!  KISS works.

I’ve also had the opportunity to give Joomla another go around on the server.   Joomla is hugely popular. Joomla is slick, but it would be a huge learning curve for me.  And for what? for popularity?  Certainly not for security and clarity. 

Rock On Raven!

 

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Turing Award – First Woman Wins

A 40 year male tradition is broken!
A. M. Turing Award – !

Frances Allen
Frances Allen

Frances Elizabeth “Fran” Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimizati

on, and parallelization. She was the first female IBM Fellow and first female Turing Award winner.
— Wikipedia

ACM’s most prestigious technical award is accompanied by a prize of $100,000. It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by the Intel Corporation.

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PHP Rocks

I had a great time at the Vancouver PHP conference last week.  Eventually I settled down and tried not to get overwhelmed by the learning experience.

Would be nice to have …

Vancouver PHP 2008
5 minute Flash sessions in the theater
Show me my faults sessions … mentor/newbie gatherings
More hot water.
Women on the expert panel.
Brunch at the beach.

Kudos to all the organizers.  I know it ain’t easy. You rocked.

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Ver 2

Raven Nuke 76
Raven Nuke 76

The sun is shining, the days are longer, 2007 is a turn it around year.
lol … as if moving through space wasn’t already happening.

New CoreWare for codyg.ca!

 

RavenNuke so rocks the cms planet.

 

The sun is shining again, and the garden needs work…

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Security

Security is a process, not a result. It is a process which is difficult to adopt under normal conditions; the problem is compounded when it spans several job descriptions. All the system level security in the world is rendered useless by insecure web-applications. The converse is also true; programming best practices, such as always verifying user input, are useless when the code is running on a server which hasn’t been properly hardened. Securing forward facing GNU/Linux web servers can seem like a daunting task, but it can be made much easier by breaking the process into manageable portions.” Hardening Linux Servers