Archive For January 25th, 2006

PHP Optimization and Security tips and rant

| January 25, 2006 | 2 comments

Andrew van der Stock’s criticism of PHP’s security model. What security? Global request arrays go some way to making applications safer but there are obscure functions and settings which can trip up developers. (via) PHP Optimization Tricks from Ilia Alshanetsky has one gem I didn’t know about – the ctype extension. It’s somewhat limited but [...]

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Surfers finally beat the giant wave of Moher

| January 25, 2006 | 5 comments

Surfers have ridden and beaten the huge waves off the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare. A film is being made about the event, and a preview is available because of the interest in it! I wonder was Peter anywhere nearby with his camera?

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Useful Uses Of RSS

| January 25, 2006 | 1 comment

Rich Ziade has listed a number of ways to use RSS more creatively than just reading news headlines from blogs. One of my favourite non-blog rss feeds is the Flickr Interestingness photo feed which isn’t listed, but I’ll have to look up the comics feed mentioned above!

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