Recently I added a plug-in outside of the WordPress repository. To my horror, one of the files had a malware code inserted into the the “head” tag. The bad guys are so cleaver that they made their code to run randomly so it will not be detected by the web developer as soon as they install these bad plugins. So how do you know you have problems in your installed scripts? How do you go around fixing them? The answer to the first is that you probably won’t know until a visitor to your site or yourself come across it. But if the bad guys are into stealing information such as credit card data, you may be out of luck.
Category Archives: Computer Science
Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) related items will be posted under this category. Topics include, but not limited to, system administration, hardware/software troubleshooting, coding/programming (PHP, HTML, Java, Python, etc) and more.
Not all TLDs are created equal
Unlike in the old days, web space is getting crowded. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) have seen a flood of new applications for top level domains (TLDs) as technology have spread far beyond the rich and the powerful. I remember when I was a kid, a sever would cost more than the salary of an average South Asian. But today, one can build a server and install open source operating system for just under $400 (CAD). The rapid growth in technology have eroded the resources available for webmasters around the world.
Extract data from rows for email
If you are a teacher or a professor, you probably have several students in your class. Let’s say you would like to provide them with an update on their averages after every single quiz and exam they take. But you hate to email each and everyone of them because it consumes a lot of time to copy data from your Excel file of student records to individual emails. This is where the extract data from row by row using loop iteration comes to save you.
Visual Basic Script using the Interface
This is the second article a ongoing series of VB scripting guide. If you are unfamiliar with programming in Microsoft Excel, don’t be afraid, start your journey into VisualBasic with basics of VB explained here.
Macro recorder is great for those who are new to the coding in general. A user can utilize the graphical front end of Excel to generate Modules, which can be modified using conventional VBA Editor.
Excel Visual Basic Scripts
A simple program like Microsoft Excel 2010 can be used as a powerful tool by manipulating the software. Microsoft has published several “how to” guides such as this one Getting Started with VBA in Excel 2010. They are very good articles, and I am not trying to beat them. After all, they wrote the software anyway. I just want to introduce Excel as a powerful programing tool for home users Continue reading Excel Visual Basic Scripts