Harry Bailey

Harry Bailey is a technology and delivery leader who specialises in turning agency project chaos into clarity. With more than twenty years of experience as a developer, agency founder and fractional CTO, he helps digital and creative agencies build stronger engineering and delivery cultures and improve commercial outcomes. He focuses on practical, immediately actionable strategies, not theory, so teams can ship work on time and with less drama.

Twitter ‘patch’ the “don’t click” virus with one line of code

Before I get started, I would just like to confirm there is absolutely no reason to change your Twitter password. That’s right. Your password is safe even if you fell for the don’t click scam.

A harmless virus has been seen on Twitter over the last couple of weeks. It manifests itself as a tweet from someone which simply reads ‘Don’t click {link}’
If you are logged into twitter and you click the link, followed by a link on the following page which also reads ‘Don’t click’ then an identical message is posted without your knowledge to your own feed.

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Microsoft Plans Quick Fix for IE

As a webdeveloper I know a lot about Internet Explorer.

The number of security issues it has and the none standards complient way it renders webpages often makes me wish they would say “You know what, lets just stop making browsers, we clearly aren’t up to the task, lets just suggest everyone go and get firefox instead”

But instead they suggest this useless list of tips:

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