Archive for the ‘Information’ Category

Galileo – Soon to Grace PHP

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Galileo, an open-source framework that was developed by the Eclipse Foundation and sponsored by IBM is set for launch tomorrow. Hailed as one of the newest innovations to the development and deployment of open-sourced projects that is becoming more and more prominent with the internet of today. Eclipse is a ...

The Alarming Security Gaps

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

PHP being the most used scripting language for deploying web pages is under a lot of scrutiny as well as the many projects that used it as framework. One of these is Wordpress which has suffered a lot of malicious attacks in the form of code insertion and comments spamming ...

Smarty – Template Easy

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Formatting is one of the hardest tasks to do with respect to cross-platform and scripting programs/pages. Smarty, one of the many PHP advocates has a complete line of products, from community-based ones to those aimed at more commercial purposes enabling the development of enterprise applications over the internet that are ...

PHP – Patching up the Mess

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

The world's most used scripting language for web page development is constantly under attack from many threats that continue to wage war against the many security holes that have been left by developers and programmers the world over. Programmers and developers are being blamed for most of the many security ...

Of image and file sizes

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

One of the things that annoy many people are pages that load slowly. A lot of times, this happens simply because the PHP programmer did not pay enough attention to the file sizes and image sizes he or she put into the page. It naturally follows that larger files and ...

PHP Development Tools Released

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The PHP community has again gotten a boost with the announcement that Eclipse is set to release their much loved PHP Development tools later this month. The developer tools included in the release is set to again make the lives of PHP developers a whole lot easier and has been ...

Change your PHP to 5.2.8. now

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

As the year 2008 is about to go to 2009, so should be the ever-updating PHP versions: Due to a security bug found in the PHP 5.2.7 release, it has been removed from distribution. The bug affects configurations where magic_quotes_gpc is enabled, because it remains off even ...

Flow Control and Iteration

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Image Source:theopensourcery.com Flow control and iteration are two useful features in most programming languages. Without them, programs would be linear.Flow control means exactly what it sounds like. Control the flow. When using flow control, you are regulating the ...

Looping Statements Doesn’t loop?

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Image Source: www.pragprog.com Did you know that looping statements doesn’t loop the whole if-else statement if you put an if-else statement in the looping statement? That’s right. Looping statements only goes through the if-else statements once. Once the looping statement activates the statements inside the if-else statement, the looping statement will ...