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WordPress - How to hide a Category from Front page, Archives, Feeds, Searches and Category Widget A great plugin to exclude a category from your WordPress Web Site... and a neat PHP script to deal with the Category Widget as well

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

When dealing with a WordPress Web Site you might want to hide or exclude one or more Categories without actually deleting them: in other words, to prevent them from being …

Coding / PHP / Web

WordPress - How to Fix Home Page Caching Issues by setting the Last-Modified response Header to the most recent post An effective workaround to overcome a common WordPress problem that might cripple your SEO efforts

March 10, 2018March 10, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

If you're reading this, it probably means that you are experiencing an odd behaviour on your WordPress home page: you are often unable to see your most recent posts, as …

HIYA - Come difendersi da telefonate indesiderate, chiamate spam, annunci e offerte commerciali

Android / Applications / Cyber Security / iOS / Operating Systems / SEO & Marketing / Software / Tools & Utilities

HIYA - How to protect your Mobile Device against unwanted phone calls, spam calls, announcements and commercial offers An innovative spam-filter for smartphones that blocks the caller through a configurable blacklist of unwanted numbers

March 10, 2018March 10, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Telephone-based marketing has never been as intrusive as in these years, at least in Italy. The ineffectiveness of the controls of the Data Protection Authorities and the evident inability of …

Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance / Web

Data protection is Freedom - Data Protection Authority GDPR Video An institutional video from the Italian Privacy Authority to explain the importance of the innovations introduced by the new EU Regulation

March 10, 2018July 27, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In the remaining weeks that separate us from the final introduction of the GDPR, many italian newspapers and agencies are relaunching the institutional video created by the Privacy Authority to …

Android / Cyber Security / iOS / Mobile Devices / Privacy & Compliance

GDPR - Privacy and Data Protection on Mobile Devices - Free PDF by ENISA A useful report dedicated to Privacy and Data Protection on mobile devices with a GDPR perspective available for free download

March 10, 2018July 27, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In the past we have already talked about ENISA, which stands for European Union Agency for Network and Information Security: for those who do not know it, it is one …

Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance

GDPR - Security of Personal Data Processing - Free PDF by ENISA A very useful handbook to help understanding how to comply with the personal data security requirements issued by the GDPR

March 10, 2018July 27, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Good news for those who are striving to adapt their corporate procedures to the new European General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR. The ENISA (European Union Agency for …

Cyber Security / Web

Qualys Webcast - Prioritization of Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment A complimentary webcast offered by Josh Zelonis and Jimmy Graham of Qualys, Inc. - March 14 2018, 7:00 PM CET

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you want to keep track of what's happening in terms of IT security these days, you can hardly miss Qualys: not only for the free and premium services they …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Operating Systems / Windows

cURL and Wget alternatives for Windows Command Prompt with Powershell Some great Powershell alternatives to the Linux GNU Wget and cURL type command-line utilities using the System.Net namespace

March 2, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to find a way to execute a repeatable series of HTTP requests addressed to a Web Server from a Windows 10 machine. If it were a Linux …

Coding / HTML & CSS / Web

CSS3 Media Query to target only Internet Explorer (from IE6 to IE11+), Firefox, Chrome, Safari and/or Edge A set of useful CSS3 media queries to target only specific versions of the various browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge

February 27, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

If you're a HTML developer you most likely know that there are times when you need to selectively apply some styles to a specific browser, or to a specific version/build …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET C# - System.IO.IOException: process can't access the file because it is being used by another process in File.ReadAllBytes - How to fix it

February 23, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Any non-novice C# developer definitely knows the File.ReadAllBytes method, which is a widely used way to read a file contents in memory. The method is basically a wrapper that opens …