12 December 2007 – 11:50 AM
A
Alan Alda = Alphonso D’Abruzzo
Woody Allen = Allen Konigsberg
Muhammad Ali = Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Julie Andrews = Julia Elizabeth Wells
Fred Astaire = Frederick Austerlitz
Chet Atkins = Chester B. Atkins
Frankie Avalon = Francis Thomas Avalonne
B
Lauren Bacall = Betty Joan Perske
Anne Bancroft = Anna Maria Italiano
Brigitte Bardot = Camille Javal
Pat Benatar = Patricia Andrejewski
Tony Bennett = Anthony […]
11 December 2007 – 6:56 PM
1. Garlik (http://www.garlik.com)
Set up by some ex-Egg executives, Garlik is an online privacy firm that monitors your personal information online, and lets you know if there’s any problems (e.g. Russian gangsters publishing your credit card details). I’m on the beta, and right now it basically tells me my credit record and a list of known […]
11 December 2007 – 5:26 PM
1. Not escaping entities
It’s basic knowledge; ALL untrusted input (especially user input from forms) has to be sanitized before it is being output.
echo $_GET[’username’];
Can for instance output:
<script>/*snooping cookie or changing admin password script*/</script>
It is an apparent security risk not to sanitize untrusted data before output. Besides you might end up with pages looking very messy […]
11 December 2007 – 3:01 PM
Question: What would you like to have? Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo or Coffee?
Answer: Tea please.
Question: Ceylon tea, herbal tea, bush tea, honey bush tea, ice-tea or green tea?
Answer: Ceylon tea.
Question: How would u like it? Black or white?
Answer: White.
Question: Milk, whitener, or condensed milk?
Answer: With milk
Question: Goat milk, camel milk, or cow milk?
Answer: […]
11 December 2007 – 1:10 PM
Cool Stack is, as defined on its site, “a collection of some of the most commonly used open-source applications optimized for the Solaris Operating System.” If you have not deployed Web applications with Cool Stack before, be assured that it highly optimizes numerous open-source components such as Apache 2, PHP 5, Ruby, and Light HTTPD […]
11 December 2007 – 12:50 PM
The Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet are commonly used for presentation of reports and data.
PHP, meanwhile, has become one of the most commonly used scripting languages on the web today, with 35 per cent of web sites running PHP. The TIOBE index of programming languages also indicates an increase in the usage […]
10 December 2007 – 5:33 PM
Taking a look at PHP 6
While most web hosts are still in the PHP 4 era, the PHP developers are already planning and working on PHP 6. Lets have a look at whats been keeping them busy.
Unicode support
When youre creating a website, you hardly have to think about the character encoding. You only […]
10 December 2007 – 5:00 PM
In-car GPS-based navigation devices company CE Info Systems, Delhi, has added Bangalore to its footprint with the launch of its location finding device, MapmyIndia.
The portable interactive device - with pre-loaded digitised Survey of India maps and real-time voice guidance - enables seamless travel throughout India, within or between cities and villages, according to Rahul Verma […]
7 December 2007 – 6:02 PM
Eclipse PHP Development Tools 1.0 provides editing and debugging tools and can also work with a variety of plug-ins
7 December 2007 – 5:03 PM
Lately, Zend Technologies has worked to put PHP in the enterprise by optimizing its tools for Oracle and IBM databases and middleware.
Today, Zend makes its latest move on the enterprise, by throwing open early code for an up-coming PHP suite based on Eclipse. Zend thinks this will let it integrate with other Eclipse-based Java tools […]
