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Are you a web dev? FFS: update your libraries!

I’ve mentioned this a couple of times: I log 404 errors on this, my blogging site. A couple of valid reasons I suppose: to make sure that the content I upload is accessible, and to ensure that my URL redirections to my older blog (on a new domain) are working properly. […]

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Backing up an Azure database

This site uses a heavily-modified version of GraffitiCMS, an ASP.NET blog backend that was open-sourced way back when. I moved it to be hosted on Microsoft Azure about 18 months ago, and, to be honest, haven’t really worried about backing up the data contained within. However, over the past couple of virus-laden months, I’ve been considering updating the whole shebang to use DevExpress ASP.NET controls and layouts, and then writing about the experience over several blog posts. […]

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Dozy PHP hackers

One of the things I enjoy is reading the log of all 404 errors this site generates when people follow a bad link, mistype a URL, or deliberately try and find holes in the site so that they can hack it. […]

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