Blogs
New Rockville PHP Group
There are lots of active, vibrant developer groups in the DC area: DC PHP, Baltimore PHP, and the Frederick Web Tech group. The DC PHP Beverage Subgroup meets monthly in Northern Virginia. But in the middle between all these groups lies Montgomery County, Maryland. In that area live hundreds of developers who struggle to reach [...]Revamping my development toolchain
PHPUnit Plugin For Sublime Text 2
Sublime Text 2 is a new cross-platform text editor that I’ve recently switched to. It’s still in public beta, but already offers better performance (and battery life!) and a better look (fonts that render properly!) than Java-based IDEs such as Netbeans. One thing it didn’t have was support for PHPUnit, so I’ve made a plugin. [...]/dev/hell Podcast Episode #5
I was privileged to be invited to be a part of the /dev/hell podcast this week. Thanks to Chris and Ed for having me on. Check it out. And subscribe to their podcast.Zend Framework application.ini Cheat-Sheet
With the release of Zend Framework 1.8 came the long awaited component for bootstrapping a Zend Framework application. Many different bootstrapping-solutions became obsolete with Zend_Application.
In the beginning of the framework most developers didnt give much thought on bootstrapping. Most of the initialisation work was done directly in index.php, the central starting point of the application. Teams often moved that bootstrapping code to a separate configuration script. The solution worked, but many people wanted a more standardised process for application initialisation.
Continue reading "Zend Framework application.ini Cheat-Sheet"Another Serious Security Bug on PHP 5.3.9
By Manuel LemosPHP 5.3.9 release was mostly meant to fix a security bug, but it introduced a new more serious bug. PHP 5.3.10 was just released to fix this issue.
Meanwhile Debian Linux maintainers decided to stop enabling the Suhosin extension by default. This extension is used by several Linux distributions to provide protection against present and future security bugs of PHP.
Read this article to learn more about the just fixed bug what you should do to avoid these security issues. You can also learn more what is the current PHP security status and the importance of the Suhosin extension to prevent PHP security problems.PHP Summit in München
Excited About PHP Again
Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django. This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception). However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project [...]DMS\Filter Library 1.0.1 and Bundle
The past weeks I finally had some time to invest in the DMS library again, so i got busy with a few things. I also had to fix a big problem which had gone unnoticed to me, so i have to thank Mr. Guilherme Blanco for pointing it out. Sadly this means a BC break, [...]PHP 5.3.10 Released!
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security fix.Security Fixes in PHP 5.3.10:Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser, CVE-2012-0830.All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.10.For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.
