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How to connect your GetSiteControl Subscribe widget to MailChimp

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Subscribe widget<span style="color: #555555; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"> </span><span style="color: #555555; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">lets you create an opt-in form for your website and get more email subscribers. If you use <a href="http://mailchimp.com/" target="_blank">MailChimp</a> to send your email marketing campaigns you can integrate your <a href="https://getsitecontrol.com/?ref=19638" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GetSiteControl</a> widget with <a href="http://mailchimp/" target="_blank">MailChimp</a> so that the collected data is automatically saved to the mailing list of your choosing.</span></div>
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Step 1</h3>
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To connect your <a href="https://getsitecontrol.com/?ref=19638" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GetSiteControl</a> account to MailChimp: click <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Site settings</b>, enter your <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">MailChimp API key</b> and click <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Connect</b>. Here is <a href="http://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-api-keys" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; transition: color 0.2s ease-out;">where you can find your API key</a>.</div>
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Step 2</h3>
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Open your Subscribe widget and switch to the <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Integrations </b>tab. Now when your accounts are connected your MailChimp mailing lists are displayed here. Use the drop-down list to select the list you want the data from the Subscribe widget to be sent to.</div>
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You can also enable opt-in confirmation emails here, then a letter to confirm the subscription will be sent to all new subscribers and if they don’t click the link in this email, they won’t be added to your list.</div>
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Step 3 ......</h3>
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<b>For STEP 3, Read Full Article <a href="https://getsitecontrol.com/howto/general/how-connect-your-subscribe-widget-mailchimp" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></h4>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Culled From <a href="https://getsitecontrol.com/?ref=19638" target="_blank">GetSiteControl</a></span></b></i></div>
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What Is The Heartbleed Bug? Everything You Need To Know

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Unknown 0

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What is this 'Heartbleed' everyone is suddenly talking about? The term suddenly exploded as if out of nowhere, and had me thinking; 
meh, it's probably another messaging app that someone has discovered a 
bug with. </div>
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<a href="http://heartbleed.com/" target="_blank">Heartbleed</a> is a major security bug that was discovered
 Codenomicon, a software security firm, and a member of Google's 
security team. It is a serious security threat that has the potential to
 expose users' private information, including passwords, financial 
details and instant messages, among other things.</div>
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The Heartbleed Bug</h3>
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          The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the 
popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows 
stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the 
SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides 
communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications 
such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private 
networks (VPNs).<br />
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The<a href="http://heartbleed.com/" target="_blank"> Heartbleed</a> bug allows anyone on the Internet to read 
the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the 
OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the 
service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of
 the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on
 communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to 
impersonate services and users.<br />

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How does it work?</h4>
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The bug leaves open a hole that allows hackers to get in and around the 
encryption between you and the site. This means that the information 
stored on the servers, and passed between you, could be stolen! This 
information can include username/password combinations, personal details
 and addresses, credit card information, and so on! According to the 
guys at Codenomicon:</div>
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The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL 
cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the 
information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS 
encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication 
security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, 
email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).</div>
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The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of 
the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL 
software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service 
providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the 
users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on 
communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to 
impersonate services and users.</div>
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The bug, as demonstrated is dangerous yet very simple, which explains 
why it had never been identified before. It's a loophole in code, and 
not an attack or a virus that you can defend against.</div>
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Will it effect me?</h4>
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Obviously! The bug has affected all websites and services running on 
OpenSSL. These include Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Google, 
Yahoo, Amazon, GoDaddy, GitHub, and Dropbox to name just a few. Many of 
these websites have already addressed the vulnerability with a patch.</div>
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But there isn't much you can do on your part to improve your personal 
security. Changing passwords won't help you much at this point, but you 
can go ahead and do it anyway. It is advisable to lay off any online 
purchases you want to make until the dust settles down.</div>
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Furthermore, you can use the Heartbleed Bug checker to see whether the 
website you are visiting has addressed their vulnerability or not. You 
can also use LastPass’s SSL date checker to see if the server of the 
website has updated its SSL certificate recently.</div>
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Additionally, if you run your own website, the best thing you can do is 
update your OpenSSL immediately! Many good web hosting companies will do
 this for you.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Culled From>> <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>MBT</b></i></a></span></div>
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Image Source>> <a href="http://heartbleed.com/" target="_blank">http://heartbleed.com/</a></div>
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Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

Monday, March 24, 2014 Unknown 0

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Every PHP programmer is familiar with day-to-day tasks that can be tricky or cumbersome. The code above is a great example of a common mistake where a method could unexpectedly be called on a null object, causing an error that wouldn't be caught until runtime. Another example is a complex API, where developers may have a solid understanding of its semantics but still spend time looking up mundane method names in documentation.</div>
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At Facebook scale — with thousands of engineers shipping new code twice a day — slowdowns like these are even more problematic. Before Hack, we had a simple language with a quick feedback loop — but how could we mitigate the sorts of problems described above? Could early error detection coexist with rapid iteration, all while preserving our investment in PHP? Could improved code analysis and introspection help make developers more productive with tools like auto-complete?</div>
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Traditionally, dynamically typed languages allow for rapid development but sacrifice the ability to catch errors early and introspect code quickly, particularly on larger codebases. Conversely, statically typed languages provide more of a safety net, but often at the cost of quick iteration. We believed there had to be a sweet spot.</div>
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Thus, Hack was born. We believe that it offers the best of both dynamically typed and statically typed languages, and that it will be valuable to projects of all sizes.</div>
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The Hack language</h3>
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Hack has deep roots in PHP. In fact, most PHP files are already valid Hack files. We made a conscious choice not to support a handful of deprecated functions and features that were incompatible with static typing (e.g. “variable variables” and the extract() function). We have also added many new features that we believe will help make developers more productive.</div>
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Our principal addition is static typing. We have developed a system to annotate function signatures and class members with type information; our type checking algorithm (the “type checker”) infers the rest. Type checking is incremental, such that even within a single file some code can be converted to Hack while the rest remains dynamically typed. Technically speaking, Hack is a “gradually typed*”* language: dynamically typed code interoperates seamlessly with statically typed code.</div>
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Within Hack's type system, we have introduced several features such as generics, nullable types, type aliasing, and constraints on type parameters. These new language features are unobtrusive, so the code you write with Hack will still look and feel like the dynamic language to which PHP programmers are accustomed.</div>
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However, Hack adds additional features beyond static type checking, including Collections, lambda expressions, and run-time enforcement of return types and parameter types.</div>
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Collections provide a clean, type-safe alternative to PHP arrays. We designed them specifically to work well with static typing and generics. The Collections API offers many classic higher-order functions such as map() and filter() to facilitate functional programming styles.</div>
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Lambda expressions give a concise syntax for creating closures. While PHP has closures, it requires the programmer to explicitly name the variables they need to use from enclosing scopes. With Hack's lambda expressions, we automatically infer these uses, saving you needless work. Lambda expressions make it more convenient to take full advantage of the Collections API.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHl7UE-buu4o1_Q-n1SFHeLVMwF8mh8AZfiet6MvxoYo2JQNpg7x2DM8u8km8IznI9wgZaBOD2WEhqUkGM2MdK3cTUML0L0TT65DiWIXNjVi54-CSmea1K5JHgTvZUPLitpEks2t7Eik/s640/851566_537609726356988_1715700065_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHl7UE-buu4o1_Q-n1SFHeLVMwF8mh8AZfiet6MvxoYo2JQNpg7x2DM8u8km8IznI9wgZaBOD2WEhqUkGM2MdK3cTUML0L0TT65DiWIXNjVi54-CSmea1K5JHgTvZUPLitpEks2t7Eik/s640/851566_537609726356988_1715700065_n.jpg" /></a>Run-time enforcement of return types and parameter types (including scalar types like int and string) provides safety beyond what can be checked statically while type annotations are being gradually added to a codebase. Run-time enforcement helps programmers detect and diagnose certain kinds of problems more easily, and it helps HHVM's JIT produce more efficient code by making it safe to trust type annotations for optimization purposes.</div>
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Instantaneous type checking</h3>
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During development, a PHP programmer typically goes back and forth rapidly between the source code and the browser. Engineers can iterate as quickly as they need, testing and tuning an experien until it's perfect.</div>
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Traditionally, a type checker would disrupt this feedback loop as it takes time to analyze the source code. We didn't want to slow the PHP workflow, so we came up with a new approach to reconcile instantaneous feedback with type safety.</div>
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Our solution was to architect the type checker as a local server that watches the filesystem. The server keeps all information about the source code in memory and automatically updates itself when a file changes on disk. This approach has paid off: the type checker typically runs in less than 200 milliseconds and rarely takes more than a second, making it easy to integrate into the development workflow without introducing a noticeable delay.</div>
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Hack's type safety and refactoring benefits grow the more it is used within a codebase. Understanding that it would be difficult for some code to be completely transitioned to Hack right away, it was important to us that Hack be developed such that it can coexist directly with other PHP files as it is being introduced incrementally.</div>
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The rest of the conversion process, such as adding type annotations and using new language features, can be done as appropriate for the codebase. For example, a type annotation can be added for one function but left off another function, even in the same file. If a function parameter or class member does not have an explicit type annotation, the type checker considers its type to be dynamic, and it does not check the type of that value.</div>
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Within Facebook, we found that our engineers appreciated Hack enough that they started converting the majority of their own code voluntarily. With millions of lines of code in our tree, we also wanted some form of automation, so we built and use a number of code modification tools to assist the process (which we are releasing as part of Hack).</div>
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Don't worry, your PHP is safe!</div>
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HHVM is still a PHP runtime, and we intend to keep it that way. In fact, we are working hard to reach parity with PHP-5. One of HHVM's top priorities is to run unmodified PHP-5 source code, both for the community and because we rely on third-party PHP libraries internally.</div>
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HHVM is now a runtime that supports *both* PHP and Hack, so you can start to take advantage of Hack's new features incrementally.</div>
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