I know it’s been awhile since I’ve made a post; getting ready to launch a major application as well as the paying job. I have felt the blogging itch, especially since I’ve been working exclusively with the CodeIgniter framework. But today a rather exciting email came in.

I want to give a big shout out to the editors who reviewed my PyMigrate library at http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/PyMigrate.shtml and included it in their Mac section listings. Other than a few comments here early on I haven’t heard anything good or bad otherwise, so this was great news to me.

Big thanks to Softpedia.com!

100% Free award granted by Softpedia

For a while now I’ve had some suspicions and today they became realized. I am no longer with IZEA. I won’t go into the who,what, when, where and why; only that I intend to move forward and not look back.

I’ve been through these before and during the job search times, always work diligently on imporving my skills. So the next company I work for I’ll be bigger, badder and better. Current job market though I’ll have lot’s of time for improving.

Anyways, I wish IZEA and the IZEA peeps good luck and good fortune. I’m off to starting planning my next great (ad)venture.

So far in the past month I have had two database injections. I don’t know how they are getting in and since I am on a shared server I don’t have access to the raw apache logs to figure this out. Security being very important to me I had to do something on the server that would allow tracking or even setting up a complete firewall custom taliored for me.

I found Firewall Script that can be used specifically to safe gaurd my personal site with dis-regard to all the others. I have not downloaded it yet but from the features it looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Protection from sql injection, XSS attacks, even DDOS protection. Not that this blog would really ever need that I do run other sites that would really require it if the server can’t handle it.

I wanted to get this news out as soon as possible because several of us Wordpress and site owners are experiencing a rise in intrusion attempts. I’m gonna give it a try as soon as possible and I hope that this may help you as well.