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
Tag: PHP
Tools of the trade
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything overly technical here, but it strikes me that a “snapshot” of what I do (for work) and how I do it (the tech) might be useful to some. What I do is web development for Smart Solutions here in Bend. Smart Solutions is a web and software development… Continue reading Tools of the trade
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!
What about a local PHP user group?
Last week I met with a local businessman who was interested in finding a local PHP expert/consultant for a project that he’s expanding. He already has a long-distance PHP guy doing work for him, but also wanted someone local. This got me to thinking; aside from myself and a few isolated individuals, and Alpine, who… Continue reading What about a local PHP user group?
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
I’m no longer cutting edge on PHP
I just realized this; I haven’t used PHP 5 at all since it came out, so I’m terribly illiterate about this latest version of PHP. I still use PHP 4. That means I’m no longer cutting edge on PHP! Or maybe that just means I’m no longer bleeding edge, since PHP 5 adoption has been… Continue reading I’m no longer cutting edge on PHP
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