Anatomy of a blog hack

So, last weekend I found out that my blogs had been hacked. Actually, it wasn’t just my blogs, nothing personal involved or anything like that: the shared server space my sites were hosted on was compromised, and a good number of other sites and files were hacked as well. Based on what I can piece… Continue reading Anatomy of a blog hack

Bad PHP! Bad!

If you’re familiar with web programming and AJAX and PHP, check out this item about Client-side PHP on The Daily WTF. Go ahead, take a look. I’ll wait. Done? Good. Now, if you’re familiar with what’s happening in that code, I’ll wait while you convulse in horror. 🙂 Holy expletive, that code makes me angry… Continue reading Bad PHP! Bad!

PHP contest: Texas Holdem

I thought this sounded interesting considering how popular poker is these days (you know who you are): PHP Editors is holding a PHP programming contest for a Texas Holdem game. I might try it out. It wouldn’t be anything like most commercial poker sites out there, but it would be an interesting programming project. …Not… Continue reading PHP contest: Texas Holdem

Two for the price of one

Just pointers to a couple of blog posts I enjoyed. First, Chris reviews Burger King in a fun sort of anti-Bend Restaurants way. Plus, you gotta love it when someone puts so much effort into writing a review like this… “Parked in lot?”, you ask, and yes I did because there are critical steps in… Continue reading Two for the price of one

Ning

By now the geeky part of the blogosphere and, er, web-o-sphere has been rocked by the announcement of Ning two days ago. Check it out. Their one-line description reads “Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.” What this means is they’re… Continue reading Ning

10 years of PHP

The PHP programming language is 10 years old today. A large part of what I do these days is PHP development—I’ve got it running web sites, parsing web server log files, running command-line batch processes, and more. Thanks to Rasmus and the PHP community for making it all possible! For a good roundup of the… Continue reading 10 years of PHP

PHP on .NET

Jeff Sandquist has a pointer to a video interview with two programmers that are writing a PHP compiler for Microsoft’s .NET Framework. The name of their project is Phalanger. That’s cool, I guess, if you don’t mind working in .NET. I’ve been thinking for awhile that I wouldn’t mind a PHP compiler that would create… Continue reading PHP on .NET