Posted on August 24th, 2009 in
Software Testing Trends,
Testing - Web Apps by Stanton Champion
Last week I wrote about some of the issues with plugins (especially those in WordPress) – they’re often times poorly maintained, buggy, and insecure. We got some great feedback, both on and offline, and today I want to give a few ideas for making the most of plugin-based platforms.
1.) Popular Plugins Hint at Missing Features
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Posted on August 16th, 2009 in
Software Testing Trends,
Testing - Web Apps by Stanton Champion
Last week, the WordPress team fixed a pretty nasty bug and released version 2.8.4 of their blogging engine. Prior to that, version 2.8.3 fixed a security bug in version 2.8.2 which was a security update for version 2.8.1 which itself fixed a number of security issues in version 2.8. The WordPress team has certainly been busy!
With such a strong record of fixing flaws, WordPress’s security does not worry me. What worries me are all the WordPress plugins…
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 in
Software Testing Trends by Stanton Champion
Reports are flying around the Internet about people using their VISA debit cards and seeing errors on their billing statements for charges of $23,148,855,308,184,500. That’s 23 QUADRILLION dollars. For perspective, that’s:
Of course, the additional $15 overdraft fee looks puny in comparison.
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