Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.31.2007
Original post provide by PHP FreaksLatest PEAR Releases:Net_Ping 2.4.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XLS 0.1.3Console_CommandLine 0.2.0
Previous Articles:Data Theft Soars To Unprecedented Levels
Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. "While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late.
Image Uploader
Package: Image Uploader Summary: Validate and process images uploaded using forms Groups: Graphics, PHP 5 Author: Leszek Description: This class can be used to upload images uploaded using Web forms. It takes an uploaded image and check whether the MIME type is of GIF, JPEG or PNG formats, if the file size does not exceed a given limit, or the image width and height is not smaller than a given size.
American Security Firms Collaborate On Chinese Olympics
Critics argue this assistance violates the spirit of Congressional sanctions, and that the technology left behind after the games are over could be used to track dissident elements. "'I don't know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given a new toy, doesn't use it,' said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm.
How To Launch A Successful Technology Start-Up
'Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else.
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.
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Zend Developer Zone: Zend_Controller_Action, Now With Parameters!
Basically, Zend_Controller_Action is the parent of all of the controllers in your application. This controller is what C stands for in MVC, a design pattern used lately in web application development, especially in RIA development. The post includes a tutorial on using the parameters in an example of a design pattern.
PHP-GTK Community Site: Gul 2.0 On The Way
2 years after begining, I'm happy to announce you the Beta release of the Gul 2.0 project, the XUL parser for PHP GTK (97% released). I have to do lot of things, but i think it looks like something.
Sanisoft Blog: Theming Your CakePHP Apps (V1.2)
a piece of cake (sheesh talk about cliches!). They break down the use of themes into a few simple steps adding the property to the controller, setting the application's theme and install the theme's files to the correct locations.
Reinhold Weber's Blog: From PHP To Ruby - 30 Similarities And Differences
If you know PHP, this should give you a good and quick insight in what Ruby is all about and how it compares to PHP. Some of the similarities include the dynamic typing, class scoping, heredoc abilities and current object references.
The Rising Barcode Security Threat
eldavojohn writes "As more and more businesses become dependent on barcodes, people are pointing out common problems involving the security of one- or two-dimensional barcode software. You might scoff at this as a highly unlikely hacking platform but from the article, 'FX tested the access system of an automatically operated DVD hire shop near his home.