Operations

As first mentioned over at Javamancy mini, WordPress 2.8.5 was just released. WordPress 2.8.4 has held steady for more than two months at this point, and it almost seemed as if we, the blogging community, would be able to make it to December and the WordPress 2.9 release. Alas, no… Of course, since this is [...]

Welcome to September, folks! As you’ve probably noticed, although Javamancy mini has been humming along with shorter items, Javamancy itself has been fairly quiet last month. Not to say things didn’t happen– and there were things that happened– but there were some items of interest that unfortunately do not really fit the Javamancy model of [...]

… And here ’tis, the seventeenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). The majority of the update is, of course, the WordPress 2.8.4 release, which finally cleared our QA testing and [...]

Less than two weeks ago, WordPress 2.8.3 was released in order to address a security vulnerability; before that, less than a month ago, WordPress 2.8.2 was released to address some other security issues… Now we have WordPress 2.8.4, which according to Matt is a security release intended primarily to address a password reset vulnerability that [...]

“Say it isn’t so!” Well, for those of you who have been following this event intently– and who isn’t, if you’re an avid Twitterer, right?– Twitter appears to be the victim of a DoS attack that started around 9:00 AM ET today. In a cruel twist of fate, in which other companies use Twitter to [...]

Javamancy Updated XVI

August 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM

in Operations,Services

… And now we have it, the sixteenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). From a technical standpoint, this realigns Javamancy with the WordPress 2.8.3 codeline, which does not adversely [...]

Just in time for August, another security release for the WordPress 2.8.x code line is now available to the public. According to Ryan, there were some security vulnerabilities that were uncaught by the previous release (2.8.2), that were noticed and fixed for this latest version. Like the previous version of WordPress, this one is recommended [...]

Javamancy Updated XV

July 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM · 1 comment

in Operations,Services

Although there was a sort of “mini” upgrade a couple of weeks ago, it certainly was not to the extent of upgrade early this morning for Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). Since the [...]

The Akismet folks mentioned yesterday via a post on their blog about CAPTCHA conversion rates, as discussed at the SEOmoz blog. While the very informal study done by the author of the SEOmoz blog post had a very small sampling (some statisticians may even say, “Whoa! Statistically insignificant!”), and the sampling methods were arguably questionable, [...]

As many of you who happen to blog via WordPress are waking up to this, you may have noticed that WordPress 2.8.2 is now available for download/updating. Yep, that’s right: version 2.8.2. For those of you who have just completed your due diligence and your blog upgrades, this may be one of those “Gotcha!” moments [...]