Jahr: 2004

The WACT (Web Application Component Toolkit) Wiki on PHP application security: „This is a list of common security concerns for web applications that can be or should be solved at the application development level with a focus on PHP solutions.“ (Through Dynamically Typed.)

Rick Jelliffe at XML.com: „This article shows how to describe Wiki content using SGML. We use this technique to convert a Wiki page into XML using the open source SP software from James Clark. Using this technique, you can provide your users with low-keystroke ways to send structured data with less opportunity for sytnax errors…

Harry Fuecks‘ notes on PHP session security: „[…] things to watch out for when using sessions for your sites login system; Shared web servers XSS exploits Session IDs in URL Session Fixation Sniffing Packets Cookies are not for session data“

Rasmus Lerdorf’s article on the characteristics of PHP on the Oracle Technology Network: „Popular opinion about PHP is polarized. Language purists tend not to like the somewhat haphazard implementation of many features and some of the inconsistencies that have emerged over the years. At the same time, pragmatic problem solvers tend to love how PHP…

A good article on globalizing Oracle PHP applications, on the Oracle Technology Network: „From the developers point of view, creating a globalized application introduces a new set of issues that need to be carefully planned from the early stages. Luckily, PHP offers all the necessary building blocks so that the developer can implement fully globalized…

Joao Prado Maia’s introduction on using Gettext with PHP (ONLamp.com): „The majority of open source projects, such as Xchat and others, use Gettext to translate the messages and strings shown in their user interface to several languages. The same concept can easily be applied to a Web site or Web application, and that is the…

„The Dublin Core metadata element set set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description.“ It consists of the following elements: Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Source Language Relation Coverage Rights

Nice summary: Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

Tim Anderson’s „Why Tablet PC? The pros and cons of keyboards versus handwriting input and review of Acer C110 or C111“: „When Tablet was first launched I was unsure of the format’s long-term potential. I am deeply wedded to the keyboard, there is a hefty price premium, and twisting a Tablet screen to convert it…

Rich Skrenta explains why only RAM is fast: „A disk head seek is about 9ms, and the human perceptual threshold for what seems „instant“ is around 50ms. So if you have just one head seek per user request, you can support at most 5 hits/second on that server before users start to notice latency. If…