John Kary

Instances of WordPress installed on certain clusters of MediaTemple’s GridServer were recently hit with an exploit that appended an external JavaScript to each post’s content field, ultimately redirecting to redirecting to a TinyURL address, resolving to the domain http://www.qooglesearch.com.

MediaTemple asserts in a July 16, 2010 blog entry, “We do not believe that this is an infrastructure issue, but we are still investigating the root cause(s).”

I believe I have evidence to the contrary.

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Marco Tabini recently wrote on the php|architect blog that “programmers are doing it wrong.” He argues that many programmers have become hung up on writing mythical perfect code that abides by all modern best practices instead of doing what we are hired to do: solve problems quickly and efficiently. But if you spend time writing it well the first time, you too can save your sanity.

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Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are venturing into installing fiber-to-the-curb for residential users, essentially as an alternative ISP. Their goals include not only delivering faster Internet to more people, but also giving developers and users a wealth of bandwidth at their disposal and see what they can do with it.

Google asked for nominations of cities that might be a good fit for the project, so I wrote a recommendation letter for where I live in Lawrence, Kansas

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