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Jay-Z

As I noted on Twitter, Jay-Z now has a WordPress-powered blog. It’s  bare right now, but hopefully they really start to stretch WP soon. By the by, Jay, let’s grab a bite and talk tech and design. Hat tip: Michael Koenig.

Seven on Seven – Rhizome

In April I’m going to be participating in an event called Seven on Seven put on by Rhizome. “Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new — be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine — over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th.”

Appnovation Technologies: 4 Drupal Security Issues

While Drupal is a secure system, there are 4 configuration issues that are often overlooked when developing a Drupal site. By following a few easy steps, we can make a Drupal site much less vulnerable.

1) Leaving Drupal Version Information Text Files on Server
A lot of developers forget to delete the Change Log and other text files that come with the Drupal package. By leaving the text files on the server and having them accessible, you enable potential hackers to know about the exact version of Drupal that you are using. Once the hackers know about the version, they can more easily find the exploits to hack into the Drupal site.

2) Cross Site Scripting
Cross site scripting can happen if you allow visitors to post any HTML code and JavaScript into form boxes. This will allow hackers to post malicious code onto your web page. It is critical to either ensure that only filtered HTML is allowed for postings or to run the check_plain() function against all user input.

3) Exposing Apache/Server Tokens

David Stuart: Drupalcon SF 2010 session submission - How to build a Jobs Aggregation Search Engine with Nutch, Apache Solr and Views 3 in abou

Yea I just submitted my Drupalcon San Franciso 2010 session now I have to wait to see if it's worthy of a talk fingers crossed

Here are the details and the Drupal Con session submission link just in case you where wanting to vote for it on Feb 16th, 2010: