Abeon Tech

The area usable for containing the games in AV Arcade’s default template is about 650px, which is fine for most games. Some other templates, on the other hand, use an area a lot smaller to contain the main Flash Game.

Some games I have on my Online Arcade use a width of up to 800px, which can over lap the sidebars and hide their content.

It’s a simple problem to fix and can even help boost your arcade sites earnings a little…

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If you have run a Wordpress blog for any length of time, you should know how large the SQL database can get.

This is largely due to the “Post Revisions”, which get auto-saved.
If you edit a post a few times, a huge list of revisions gets saved to the database. You can see these at the bottom of the post editing page.

This post has easy methods to disable and delete the post revisions, which are automatically cached by Wordpress.

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There are many instances when user input is needed. But allowing just any code to be passed can cause severe problems and lead to even the most annoying 10 year old script kiddie writing “PWND” all over website!

There a are some simple steps which you can take to prevent most of these.
This article will go over some of the fundamental XSS attacks and how to stop them.

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It’s nice to see the developers of PHP had some fun while they worked.
If you add the code…

?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42

to the end of any URL that is a PHP page, you will see a funny picture on most servers. Also on April 1st (April Fool’s Day), the picture will replace the PHP logo on any phpinfo() page. If the PHP directive expose_php is set to be “off” in php.ini, then the PHP eggs will not show, but it is “on” by default, and many webhosting servers do not change it.

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A friend of mine just sent me the URL to a flash game (for obvious reasons I will not share the link) which is part of a number of games with a price of 10.000 EUR in the end. One would believe that a game with such a price money is secure. Especially when the organising party is an internet provider.

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