Anith Gopal

The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku: Rounding up stragglers Last few bugs for 3.1 Go test RC2 As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1 , release candidates are the last stop before the final release

WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions. This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts.

WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. Haiku has become traditional: Fixed on day zero One-click update makes you safe This used to be hard This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. Big thanks to Vladimir Kolesnikov for detailed and responsible disclosure of the security issue! Download 3.0.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area

Many Linux users use the ‘find’ utility when searching for files using the command line on their system. They’ll do a simple: find / -name ‘pattern’ Really though, the power of find isn’t just in finding names of files but rather specific details about those files. For example, if you wanted to find files which are writable by both their owner and their group: find / -perm -444 -perm /222 ! -perm /111 or perhaps find any file that’s been altered in your Download directory in the past 24 hours: find /home/user/Downloads/ -mtime 0 As you can see, the find command is very versatile and can be used to find an array of different attributes of files.  There are times though where I’m just looking for something and I don’t want to have to wait for the command to scan the entire directory tree in order to track it down.  That’s where locate comes in with quick and simple results

This is one of those tasks I need to repeat every now and then and always forget the exact steps. So in the interest of sharing, I’ve written this post to demonstrate how to get started building a very simple module and cmdlet with C# and Visual Studio.

This may be somewhat obvious but took me a few minutes to figure out what had happened. I have been developing sandbox solutions on my development box for a project I’m working on and was at the point of uploading some of the WSP’s to the staging SharePoint 2010 farm. They uploaded just fine to the site collection and showed the "Activate" button highlighted upon selecting the solution.

WIQL (Work Item Query Language) is the query language for Work Items that Test Management adopts for querying test objects. In Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), WIQL queries are hidden away from users and only the query results are displayed. Nevertheless, if you ever need to use the command-line tool (TCM.exe) or to write your own code against the TCM OM, knowing the Test-specific WIQL syntaxes would become very handy.

I was trying to get a silverlight media player webpart working  and struggled to find the correct properties to get the video started.

Today I am trying to cover a common issue that we face while trying to connect to a remote SSIS service. Sometimes, it happens that when you try to connect to SSIS using SSMS on the machine where SSIS is running and it connects just fine. But when you use an SSMS that is on a client machine (in fact any remote machine) to connect to the same SQL Server Integration Services you may get following error

There’s ton of documentation out there on how to use Mercurial and its various clients. For this blog post, you’ll see me use a popular client called TortoiseHg. ( Hg is the chemical element symbol for Mercury, hence Tortoise ”Hg” in case you’re wondering.) If you’re already familiar with TortoiseSVN, this will be very straight forward.  Step 1:  Install TortoiseHg You can install TortoiseHg from http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org

A growing number of governments, including our own, have started to make the large datsets they maintain available through portals like data.govt.nz .

All over the internet and blogshpere there are varying opinions, bordering on religious fanaticism, of which OS is the best. I obviously have my opinion too