Domains May Disappear After Search
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITPonca City, We Love You writes “Daily Domainer has a story alleging that there may be a leak that allows domain tasters to intercept, analyze and register your domain ideas in minutes. ‘Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,’ says one industry insider. ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has not been able to find hard evidence of Domain Name Front Running but they have issued an advisory (pdf) for people to come forward with hard evidence it is happening. Here is how domain name research theft crimes can occur and some tips to avoiding being a victim.”
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Ivo Jansch's Blog: Book Announcement: Enterprise PHP Development
He points out that the first version of the book will be handed in in March so ideally it will be released soon after that. He's also open to ideas/content suggestions/etc that you might want to post to his blog for consideration.
Evan Sims' Blog: Announcing LibGameFly
At the moment it's very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing... well, whatever the hell you want with it. It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users' accounts.
ProDevTips: Writing A CMS/Community With Smarty And The Zend Framework: Part 7
Therefore this part will not cover the whole component, only as far as I've gotten at the moment. Covering the whole process in one piece would make it a very long piece indeed. He provides the code examples and complete SQL structure to get the blog up and rolling as well as some handy tips and explanations along the way.
Zend Developer Zone: Book Review: Learning PHP Data Objects
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a review of Packt Publishing's Learning PHP Data Objects book writen up by Akash Mehta. In Learning PHP Data Objects, the author Dennis Popel examines this new [database access] system and explains how to begin using PDO in development as a replacement for typical database drivers.
Zend Developer Zone: Book Review: Learning PHP Data Objects
The book is an excellent introduction to the data abstraction layer and also provides essential insight into the inner workings of database interaction with PHP. Akash talks briefly about the history of PDO and what it can be used for first, then gets into the contents of the book (things like the intro chapters and the quality of the writing).
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XML
It can also generate XML documents from nested arrays that define the document tag structure. The class can load XML documents from files or text strings. It turns the document tags into keys of a nested associative array.
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PHPLogger
Package: PHPLogger Summary: Log errors to separate files according to severity Groups: Logging, PHP 5 Author: Gurdeep Singh Description: This class can be used to log application errors. It can open separate log files to write error log messages depending on the error severity levels.