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WordPress Update; “Allowed memory size of…” error

Ever go to update WordPress and received this error? Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2516357 bytes) in /home/edm/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1363 That’s because the php.ini is setup to only allocate so much memory to script execution. In this case, my .ini file was set to only allocate 32MB; [...]

Online File Screening, Virus/PUP Scanner

I’ve come across several *suspiciously named files* in recent months… Windows has a funny habit of creating directories with seemingly random names, and caching/storing less than intuitively name executables in them… Yay Windows DEV team. Yay. Let’s continue to use a proprietary naming convention that raises suspicion, and pisses people [me] off. Thank you Garritt [...]

HTML Form Processing Tip

No, this isn’t something NEW, but a good reminder… I *assumed* it had been set up correctly to begin with, but I was wrong. So when processing a form (ie: POST form data to a validation/storage function) any input elements with the DISABLED attribute are ignored. Nothing new; right. But you might want to process [...]

2003 Bonneville, 4 Blizzards; The Heartache

Iowa has been hit pretty hard this winter. Since mid-December, we’ve gone through four blizzards; totaling just shy of a full meter of snow… a week of -15F and lower temperatures, BEFORE windchill is factored. Crazy stuff, I say. The latest blizzard, I was privileged enough to drive home in… bad choice. So earlier this [...]