12 February 2008 – 3:45 PM
The folks working at Opera Software launched a new version of their famous Opera browser but this time, it comes with a brand new name and several goodies for its users. Codenamed Kestrel, Opera 9.5 Alpha bundles VoiceOver support and an improved BitTorrent performance, a function that was often criticized by the peer-to-peer fans. In [...]
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 – 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 [...]
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 [...]