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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Fixing update error in eclipse PDT
The last time I downloaded Eclipse PDT for PHP, (located at zend.com/pdt), everything was great. That is, until I wanted to run the updates. It stopped with an error and would never update my PDT. Luckily, one of the consultants … Continue reading
Namespacing is important – even in PHP
Perl, Java and xml people are very aware of what a namespace is… even wikipedia tells us they are. But, certain languages, such as PHP, don’t support namespaces yet. (However, thank you Dmitry for your proposal.) But are namespaces really … Continue reading
AJAX Security Research and Findings – Round 2
Round 2, and the final round, is complete! The previous article here talked about my initial findings. Well, I was able to try some proofs of concepts on my javascript finding, and I put together our top level recommendations for … Continue reading
Highlighting Source Files
I have been writing code snippets in this wordpress blog alot – and I wanted to possibly have the code highlighted. One of the things that happened with code highlighting plugins I’ve noticed is that the code has to be … Continue reading
Real world stories of a prepared statement
A couple months ago, I was out in Rochester MN at IBM for a multi-day meeting about communication between the iSeries(system-i, i5, as400, whatever its called now a days) and PHP/Apache. One of the things we talked about was our … Continue reading
When your linkd causes you problems, you must convertd it!
For the setup I use at (“the triangle”), I have alot of filesystem links – and these are made on win32 with the linkd.exe command (the version I got is from the windows 2000 resource cd). When I start a … Continue reading
Send e-mail from outlook using PHP
While working on some code at (“the triangle”), I run into some issues with the mail() function. On our linux qa and production servers, we can use the mail() function no problem – but on my development platform, windowsxp, I … Continue reading
PHP Script Installer
A couple weeks ago I was reading a blog posting about PHP Script installing. I don’t remember the exact context of the article (or where it was for that matter – otherwise I’d link to it!), but I had suggested … Continue reading
Unobtrusive JS to stop form submission
On one of the sites at (“the triangle”), one of the programmers on my team had this strange attachment to the Yahoo User Interface libraries – but I guess that was a good thing as it taught him a good … Continue reading
Security Issue with Subversion Deployment?
I use Subversion (SVN) for source control and deployment both for JEMDiary and at (“the triangle”). While working on my local copy of one of the websites, I got to thinking about the .svn folder and all of its files. … Continue reading