Daily Archives: 9 January 2008

Now JVM for PHP :: Sun into scripting language interpretation

The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language — it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby and Python, with PHP to follow shortly. We sat down with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, and discussed Java’s move into scripting language interpretation in the first half of a … Continue reading »

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7 Deadly Sins of AJAX application development

At first blush, those pitfalls may seem avoidable through sheer common sense, and to a degree, that’s true. But AJAX apps bristle with architectural differences from its DHTML forebears. No matter how much common sense you bring to the application development task, it is still good to learn from the mistakes of those who have … Continue reading »

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PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects. Eleven projects made the list: Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL. San Francisco-based Coverity, working in collaboration with Stanford University and under a contract … Continue reading »

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