Over the weekend, thousands of websites around the world, including the UK’s NHS and ICO and the US Government Court system, were compromised, and caused visitors to mine crypto-coins – generating money for the miscreants. These sites were using a popular plugin called Browsealoud. Their support software “adds speech, reading, and translation to websites facilitating … Read more
Update: This article has been updated! Please see below. PHP is the most popular server-side scripting language – by a wide margin, comprising of more than 80% of the websites on the Internet. It’s popularity is due to its’ ease of access, and support from many applications and frameworks, including WordPress and Magento. PHP was … Read more
As an aside from the usual discussions, there is an interesting article on The Register discussing the trial of teaching programming to GCSE students. Having worked in a number of schools, I’ve seen a drift away from the early days of teaching computing. When I was at primary school, there were a handful of BBC … Read more