WordPress 2.8.6 is OUT, with the Newest Security Release

Posted on November 12, 2009 by djarot

Just got a buzz from a buddy of mine about wordpress 2.8.6 release. My first impression was whoa.. already? I still can feel the feels in my fingers – I coded a project built on wordpress 2.8.5, and it is now in the past!

Well yea, wordpress known as one of the open source cms vendor with really really good care of their security, so if they release something new, it must’ve been a security fix, or features improvements. Version 2.8.6, is one of its release from their security fix outlet.

There are 2 Security Fixes:

From official wordpress blog regarding this WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release :

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

Plain english would be read like this : There re 2 security problems which could be exploited by one of your registered user – with posting privileges and logged in. So actually, this security problem is an exploitable problem by someone who’s already in (logged in as a registered user), and has posting privilege (authors, editors, or other user with custom privileges with posting ability in it.) Long story short : Exploitable by inside man.

The 2 Security Problems Are
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One Way Link Versus Reciprocal Link

Posted on September 29, 2009 by djarot

I got a text message from a buddy this morning, asking for something that kinda short in length – in a matter of sentences – but not exactly short in efforts. He said, “Could you help my site to be atleast at page 5 of google search result for this keyword?” He included the keyword on that message. Pretty short message. Not even 3 sentences.

I ‘m not really an SEO expert, and never wanna be, though I can’t help if someday I ‘m becoming one. But this kind of text messages keep coming at my cell atleast once a month. It triggered me to start thinking, an SEO consultant would be one great income stream for me. Nah, I ‘ll keep that as a lending hand sake as usual. Well, SEO is a self doable thingy. It ‘s just took time, and lotsa efforts. I never believe if I met someone who always saying it out loud, SEO is a hard thing to do. Nope. It ‘s not. Keeping up the effort is the hard part.

Getting in to SEO

Okay so, getting into first page for certain keyword on search engine result position is always been the struggle of the century for most webmasters. Me, no exception. The real core of this are always 2 things.

First, On site – or some say – On page optimization. Last is Off page optimization. The first is the part when you ‘re optimizing your site ‘s composition from top to toe, to be optimized for certain keyword. There ‘re some parts of your site pages that need to be optimized. Title, meta keywords and descriptions, Headings, where to bold italized or underlined, how to play with alt attribute for image tag, and so on. I ‘ve mentioned this once, in my previous post, you ‘d find it in related resources just below this post.

Last, would be the Off site optimization. It ‘s all about the link building. How to get as much votes as possible for your site, or site ‘s pages. You should ‘ve heard link exchange, reciprocal link exchange, one way links, three way links, and such terms. Those are some link building practices all in all to get as much votes as possible from others.

Link Building and Quality Guidelines

Just for your real basic consideration, the volume war was over. Wake up buddy, It is 2009. The one who gets the most backlinks not always win. The one who got the most relevant does. You should always refer to G’s Quality Guidelines before you take it into an action.
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10 Quick Ways to Get Google Kick Your Site Out!

Posted on September 27, 2009 by djarot

Okay I must admit, this is the hottest day of the week. Not that there ‘s a hot girl hopin up my desk or something. I mean, literally, referring to the SUN and its flare above my head. Gosh, I even took my shirt off when I ‘m typing this. Nope, I ‘m far from exhibitionist and all things related to get the fun of being with no clothes on, no. It ‘s just really really hot here in my office. Like I could boil an egg in this plain air, ha lol. Yea, I may exaggerate a bit about the boil egg thing, but you get the point anyway.

This morning, somebody was really poppin up. Again — he ‘s yet another just-so-happened-tobe-a-seo-analyst-wannabe buddy of mine. Not that I wasn’t expecting a company that morning, this smart-a55 buddy was suddenly lecturing me about some tricks to get our site on first page of search engine position result. I always referring to google when I mention search engine. Not really sure what his point at the very first part of his lectures, we have some discussions a bit about the topic he forced me to discuss, and after half of a pack of my cig pack is gone, he ‘s gone.

Somethin bothers me right after he left. I may not be a Search Engine Optimization Analyst or such thing, but I did learn some lessons of my own on how to get things right in a matter of optimizing our site, for search engines sake, for readers sake, for browsers sake, and for all that really matters sake. AND, the most important part which really bothers me — well, beside this whole weather thingy — is.. almost all things he lectured me about were things that in My SEO list marked as black hat techniques or some may called ‘em Dirty tricks. Whoa, did I learn the wrong stuff, of is it his?

I may not be the-mr-always-right-all-the-time, but this time, I ‘m 100 percent sure, I ‘m NOT wrong. So, here ‘s what he was lecturing me about this morning, which in MY SEO list, I ‘ve marked ‘em all as a black hat techniques, or Things you need to AVOID in a matter of optimizing your site for search engine position result, or, 10 Google DON`Ts — or should I also say — 10 Helluva Quick Ways to Get Google Kick Your Site ‘s Out of the Indexing!

1. Cloak Your Site.
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The Easiest Way to Create A Professional Website – When You’re Not really a Designer or Programmer

Posted on June 12, 2009 by djarot

There ‘s this neighbor of mine who ‘s been tailing me over these past 2 weeks. Asking stuff, and all things online earning. Seems desperately interested he is. And to be honest, I ‘m a bit annoyed while I always admire his spirit when it comes to curiosity.

Pretty much un-fortunate for me, I ran into him this morning on my way to Iza Media office. As actually my office is — surprisingly — nearby his house, so it ‘s not really an incidentally occasion. He told me that there ‘s a thing in his head he need to ask me, — yet again — so we ‘re headed together to my office.

We ‘re here at my office, I turn my pc on, I sat, He sat. My pc reach the desktop, by that exact time I ‘ve already feels this heat like a heated volcano would exploded nearby me.
..and it explodes.

“So Jarot, after your whole explanations about online opportunities, I ‘d really like to know if to create a website is as easy as you ‘ve told me couple days a go.” There he goes, he has it.

“Umm, what?” It confused me a bit.
As I never really mention the “it’s-easy-to-create-a-website” part.

While I did explained some of the-what-and-the-how of how things works on the internet – and fyi this dude is aint a tech savvy to the core – I still remember it precisely that I never mentioned about making a website is easy.

“I ‘m positive, I never told ya that creating websites like what I have live up there is easy. Where did ya get that idea anyway?”

I replied lightly. Light up my A-Mild cig. Flat face mode : ON.
.. and you know what, he giggles.

“Haha, you got me on that. Yea, you never really mentioned it. I made that part up. So c’mon, gimme your secret.”

He just admit that he lied, yet he seems damn proud of it. I ‘m sure there’s something wrong with his head.

“What more secrets do you want, you ‘ve seen it all these last 2 weeks.”

I shoot back. Yet another headshot. I ‘m beginning to become an expert on this shooting back thingy.

Not Easy, Aleast for Me.

“All I did is code this code that — you ‘ve seen it — Create some graphics — you ‘ve seen it also — and blogging. That ‘s that. And one thing for sure, to create A website is never easy. Atleast for me.”
I added some more pressures on my tone.

I can see this desperation is growing bigger on his eyes.

“So it ‘s not easy huh?” he replied desperately, like he has loose the war of this century of something.
“I ‘m not really a designer, nor even a programmer like you, so the whole online earning thingy is really just for dudes like you? Right?” He ‘s down even more.
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The Real Truth Behind Unlimited Web hosting Package, Revealed!

Posted on May 28, 2009 by djarot

Here we go again talking about one real commodity of all things internet business, web hosting. Yeah, we can’t go any further for our online business IF we don’t wanna involved with this essential part of online business. So what I ‘m gonna discuss this time is about what is unlimited hosting really mean.

Well you, me, us, seen it all over the place for this kind of offer, when we ‘re on our way to choose which web hosting is the right hosting for our need. Right? Here, there, and everywhere.. you ‘ll meet this unlimited plan offer. Just f-y-i, a.k.a for your information, there 2 main elements of a web hosting plan. Bandwidth and Disk space, or you can say disk space and bandwidth, both means the same anyway, either you ‘re saying it by disk space first or bandwidth first. (So why bother writing it with an OR? not really sure, whatever. )

Okay so, unlimited always attractive in some obvious ways. One thing for sure is it requires you no more thought. Well it ‘s unlimited right, you won ‘t have to worry about running it out. Right? Uh huh, it ‘s a common public thought. and that ‘s pretty much the main reason why this unlimited thingy being placed all over the place by web hosting providers to gain more clients or customers. While truth is always bitter, you ‘ll found out real soon that the real truth behind the unlimited-webhosting-offer scene is bitter even more.

Is Unlimited web hosting really Unlimited?

Nope. It ‘s NOT. It ‘s just an un-real thingY, with a capital Y. Why?
You know, here ‘re some facts you need to know why this unlimited offer thingy would never happened, not in this ~~lifetime~~ near future,

Disk space is “the” space where you ‘d allot on server as your website storage. It cost money. Check.
Bandwidth is “the” amount of data capacity transferred from the server to visitor’s browser to display requested web pages. It cost money also. Check.
Graphics, web pages, flash files, other file formats stored on server and requested by visitors browser consume bandwidth. Check.
Network lines that would carry data all over the web have its finite capacity, and it’s limited at any point at a time. Check.
Hard drive of a server always has limited amount of space depends on how big the hard drive is, in a matter of capacity. There ‘re no such thing as hard drive with unlimited capacity. Check.
5 points above, all cost lotsa money. Check.
All web hosting providers have this contract with their own ISP for their internet connection. Which is Limited. So with this capability they have there never will be a chance they could provide unlimited bandwidth for their customers. Check.

Make sense?
Let ‘s go thru some more deeper then..

Yet Another Humpty Dumpty Speaking
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Optimizing Credit and Debt Consolidation Site for 1st page of SERP?

Posted on May 24, 2009 by djarot

This evening pretty much the same as any other evening I have all this time. A pack of cig, a can of cold nescafe original, my wireless keyboard and mouse, my 1920×1200 screen, another codes to write, Satriani or Vai ‘s songs all around my desk atmosphere. Somebody knocked on the front door and it happened to be one of my favorite bone-head buddy. He ‘s a coder and a search engine marketer, yet always talk like there ‘s no tomorrow.

You guys know Wade Wilson, right? Which later becoming Deadpool – which is the Weapon XI, from X-men Origin – Wolverine 2009 big screen? This buddy of mine got the exact speedy tongue just like Wade. Sorta make me dizzy hearing ‘em mumbling around about everything and anything that just floated out of his mind. He ‘s even got this same answer as Wade every time ones got tired of it and shout to shut him up. “Not When I ‘m awake”.

But, this evening is a different story. I wont get tired of his speaky thingy he ‘d shoot. As I ‘d keep him busy with this some sorta challenge I got this morning in my mailbox. I ‘ve mentioned previously, I ‘m not really into Search engine optimization and such, not even an SEO analyst or make a living hourly by it. But these kind of emails keep coming in and yeah, I always try to do my best to respond ‘em. This email was asked my service – while I never really offer any SEO or SEM service – to optimize his Credit and debt consolidation site. I giggled a bit when this one coming in this morning. Not that this subject is my fave, no, it’s just.. it finally arrives, the real – like real real – moment to give this Weapon XI buddy of mine a real play. Well he ‘s always mumbling around about this mojo thingy he ‘s got to optimize any type of site quoted to his desk – while I never really see any live prove of ‘em. Ha, this is it.

He sit, grabbed my cig pack, I quickly grab my nescafe-original-can to avoid him grabbing it.
“So bud, what’s goin on with ya this evening with Vai’s Lotus Feet inside your head?” Hah, he shoot me first.
“You know, same old same old, code this code that, kinda sorta..” I shoot back,
“Hey, you know what, I got this exact cup-of-coffee of yours, thought you ‘d interested. SEO thingy, a Credit and debt consolidation site owner wanna make his site to the first page search engine position result for this debt consolidation keyword. Wanna take a look at it?”
He replied quickly, “Hell yea I wanna look at it.”

I shoot back perfectly, one bullet only, a head-shot.

I show him the email, he read it really-really carefully, while behind him, I can’t help my giggles. “Yup, this one definitely my daily cup.” He finally sat back to his chair.

“Wanna work on it? I ‘ll deal with the pricing and stuff with the client. Will make sure you get enough cut. I know your price.” I ‘m sitting back to my chair. “Sure thing, on it.” He replied.

“So what ‘s the plan? Wanna share your tipsy tricks? You know you ‘re way way above my ceiling in a matter of SEO thingy. Is it hard? Optimizing Credit and Debt Consolidation Site?.” I ‘m starting the spread of my spider web with his fave bait – flattery.

He bite, and here comes his secret to optimize credit and debt consolidation site.

1. SEO is Ain’t an Overnight Service.
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5 Quick Tips Designing Your Booklet Printing Cover

Posted on April 23, 2009 by djarot

You know what this tiny lil thing called booklet printing, right? A small book, pretty similar to a catalog, informational pamphlet, training manuals, program overviews, travel guides, or operational manual? We live our life everyday with this kind of thing. I bet not much of us know exactly what this tiny little thingy called. My neighbors don’t.

When it comes to design stuff, it always has this need to be unique. Text, layout, graphics, shapes, colors, and such thing. It applies also to booklet printing cover design. Each type has each own uniqueness. It should. For booklets, cover always reveal its professionalism level. And this pretty much the part that would determine consumers interested to read all information carried inside or put it away.

No, I ‘m not gonna write about how to create high quality fancy graphics and some techniques on how to do that. It ‘s about how to create your Booklet printing cover that would catch the consumer ‘s eyes and interest. Which would lead them to un-cover the cover and get all things carried inside un-covered. Yeah, I mean to read it.

1. Spend the Time.

All things design need its own milestone. Regardless what type of design you ‘re working on. Each ideas, the seek of the perfect colors, the catchiest layouts, yet strongest typography possible. It needs time. So spend as much time as it needs. Don’t create things half perfect. Always work your best.

2. Typographical Thingy

Other than all the fancy graphic stuff, Typography still RULE. Choose letters with flags which joining the letter such Times New Roman, Georgia or serif fonts, for your cover. Less fancier, but for the goal of easier to read and eye catchy, this would be your first choose. Make it large, and stands out from other smaller texts.

3. Engaging Image

It would be useless creating a booklet cover with no image on it. You need to. Always add image element to your cover design which would be the accurate portrays of the booklet subject. SO it need to be engaging and accurately accurate. Feature items, for example. Some related animal photos if the booklet is all about protecting the almost extinct species. Include some tags for your images, that would encourage readers to found out more, look inside, and read the booklet.

4. Back Cover Matters
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10 Things You Must Know to Find the Best Web Hosting

Posted on April 22, 2009 by djarot

Yeah, you got it right, it’s YET another tips to find web hosting. When you google this keyword, you ‘d get upto 9 mils results on how to choose web hosting. So why bother to write something within the same topic? I do this as a personal note. A place where can I bookmark, where the most fun part is it’s my own place. With the spirit of Adding some values out of what ‘s already there out there, I ‘m continuing my typing.

1. Speed and Reliability.

Web host should be fast, yet reliable. You ‘d notice this word “UPTIME” mentioned all over webhost provider. It refers to the time when this offered service is functional. Did you even know that you should go for the one with minimum uptime 99%? You heard me right, 99% is a minimum. Don’t go anything below it. In fact, 99% is too low. You should actually go with higher than 99.5% uptime. Guarantee always reflect to some amount of compensation. Be sure you got that in hand.

2. To Go or Not To Go With Unlimited

Point 2 here would be about traffic or sometimes called bandwidth which refer to the real state: Data Transfer. How much amount of bytes that your site transferred to your visitor when they ‘re on your site and browse around. To go or Not to go with Unlimited bandwidth offers, that ‘s the question. Never believe any “unlimited” terms advertised on some web host, as unlimited is ain’t really unlimited at all in the end. You ‘d never be able to use that oh-so-called-unlimited-amount, ‘coz it will always hit other limits – which sometimes specified somewhere else where you could find it being redefined to be “yeah-it-actually-is-limited” in some way. Always go for offers that stated clearly how much traffic of some offered packages allows.

Oh, if you still need me to say it out loud, the answer would always be, Not to Go. And buddy, this point is also applied for this popular term called Unlimited Disk Space. End of point 2.

3. A Real Functional Technical support

When I say functional, I mean functional. You know, when you need ‘em they around. When You ask things they answered. Do they offered a functional 24/7 support? Refers to 24 hours a day – 7 days a week. Refers to all year around? You ‘ll gonna need a webhost that have staff working on weekends and some national holidays. Things often went wrong at some of the most inconvenient times, and you ‘d be surprised that a web hosting provider that advertise 24/7 support doesn’t really have this kinda support on their end. I ‘ve got some worse moments of my own with this kind of provider. I got my self in to a webhost that run by bunch of salesmen, which have this smooth talky-talk, but not really how to fix problems. So tested it out first.

4. Some Fancy Thingy Called Software
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Ultimate Mens Restroom

Posted on March 7, 2009 by djarot

Most public toilets are never be the nice places. Even the cleanest one, you still don ‘t wanna spend much time in there, right? But here ‘s one toilet where you wouldn ‘t be in a hurry to waggle the last dribbles from your tackle! Now that’s what I call a touch of fun. Taking a P, would never be the same bore activity again.

This is without doubt the ultimate mens restroom! Choose your girl!

Okay, guess play: what do you guys think, what ‘s inside the girls mind?

CMS Open Source Versus CMS Bikinan Sendiri

Posted on March 6, 2009 by djarot

Kebetulan ketemu temen lama, a long time no see buddy – web programmer juga – dan ngobrol dikit. UHm, lumayan banyak dink.. Say hello, ngobrol ngalor ngidul, bla-bla-bla.. Kayak biasane klo temen lama ketemu.

Ada satu topik yang menarik dari obrolan kami malam itu. Oh iyo, catetan ajah, temenku ini adalah salah satu programmer veteran, yang jadi salah satu alesan kenapa aku semangat belajar php kala itu. Dan beliau juga salah satu jenis web programmer yang stay bertahan – nulis sendiri semua program yang mo dipake di semua web-nya, instead of pake CMS open source. Idealisme nya itu lho, gile.. ngga bisa komentar banyak aku.

Kenapa nggak pake Open Source?

“Kenapa masi tetep bertahan ngga pake CMS Open Source bro?” pas aku nanya gitu, sobat lekat yg satu ini jawab gini :

Banyak yg nggak tak butuhin di CMS Open Source yg ada. Terlalu berat. Yang tak butuhin cuman kemampuan buat update web ajah dari admin backend (baca:admin area).

Oh yah? Is it really? Aku agak terhenyak ajah. Mosok seh banyak yg nggak dibutuhin dan hanya bikin berat ajah? Sebagai web programmer yg all-round – semua CMS tak lalap – yang hasil-e malah ga ada yg mateng semuanya (Hihihi, ngga lah..) Aku lumayan heran dengan opini hebat kawanku yang satu ini. Opini ini sangat mirip dengan apa yang tak yakini beberapa tahun lalu tentang nge-blog pake program blogging bikinan sendiri.

Blog (Pake Program Blog) Bikinan Sendiri

Dulu Aku yakin banget, bahwa nge-blog pake program blogging bikinan sendiri bakalan jadi lebih-amat-sangat-enteng, dibandingkan pake wordpress yg nge-load dashboardnya dari versi ke versi tambah berat ajah. Bukankah keperluan kita di admin area cuman update data ajah, nulis artikel, edit sono-sini, publish? Apa aja neh yg bikin leled di wordpress? Setelah tak cek.. hmm.. Ini ngga perlu – itu ngga perlu, akhir-e aku mutusin : Bikin program blog sendiri. (Kedengeran-e sangar banget ngga seh?)

Basic dari Web Dinamis Berbasis Database

Kamu² yg web programmer pasti dah pada tau bahwa sebuah web berbasis database selalu nggunain alur kerja programming yg selalu sama. Yaitu: Query ke database untuk menampilkan suatu data tertentu untuk halaman tertentu.
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