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 would be faster and less resouce intensive than a regular expression to do simple checks.
While I’m blogging development stuff, here’s mention of a vector drawing library in Javascript!
Yes, newer browsers have SVG support but this will work in older browsers and newer. Cute.
2 Comments
Squire (1 comments.) on January 25, 2006 at 11:07 am.
Nice site
Kae Verens (28 comments.) on February 8, 2006 at 10:07 am.
what a coincidence! here’s an SVG renderer written using that library: http://verens.com/archives/2006/02/05/implementing-an-svg-viewer-in-javascript/