The News Review:
- WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
- Comments on: pen source CMS – promise without pitfall
- The office of the future is all around
WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
guardian.co.uk – Oct 11, 2007
Photograph: Christian SinibaldiMatt Mullenweg the 23-year-old who is the founding developer of the open source blogging software WordPress woke up in March to find that disaster had struck. “A cracker gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers WordPress. org” he later explained on his blog. “They modified two files to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution. “What was alarming was that thousands of people were downloading the code believing it to be the latest – and so the most secure – when in fact it was making their sites vulnerable to attack.
I found a sample essay, possibly better buy papers on parole. Thanks Andrew.
Comments on: pen source CMS – promise without pitfall
Register – Oct 11, 2007
Cheers NickCrummy Communities By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 11th ctober 2007 14:26 GMT. Makes clean code very customizable huge support community. However I have found the WP community to be like an online Melrose Place with battling egos and verbal pie fights. I have had offline conversations with many people who complain about the community and many eminently qualified people don't participate because of this stuff which is a real shame.
The office of the future is all around
guardian.co.uk – Oct 11, 2007
com has been adopted by premium clients such as Time Reuters and the Wall Street Journal – has 10 employees scattered around the world and until he brought them all together recently he says he had only ever met six of them. When they set up and monitor websites for their clients they don’t need even to visit their offices as it is all done remotely. Standing a few yards from him was one of Web 2. 0′s great successes Matt Mullenweg whose open source blogging company WordPress is currently 22nd in the Quantcast US site rankings with more than 21 million unique visitors a month (ahead of Craigslist and just behind Wal-Mart). It is run with 17 staff around the world from New York to Australia via Singapore and with no office. His iPhone is his HQ. He doesn’t have a problem with hiring people remotely he says because as a developer he knows them by their coding.