Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Archive for September 2007
History of the Free Software Movement
Found an interesting read over at O Reilly’s website: The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement, by Richard Stallman.
The Unexpected SQL Injection
Something every PHP developer should be reading: The Unexpected SQL Injection – When Escaping Is Not Enough The conclusions: Write properly quoted SQL: Single quotes around values (string literals and numbers) Backtick quotes around identifiers (databases, tables, columns, aliases) Properly escape the strings and numbers: mysql_real_escape_string() for all values (string literals and numbers) intval() for […]
Say NO to Vista
The war on Vista continues: Say NO to Vista. I’m even recommending Apple Mac’s above Vista!
Callback functions in PHP
I was implementing a plugin system for a framework I’m writing, and I needed plugins to be able to register a callback function or method with the Plugin Manager so that the callback function would get called when a signal was emitted. Here’s a very stripped down version of what I ended up with: First, […]
Back from Dublin
Hi, I’m back from Dublin. Here’s a picture of what we did:
Dublin
I’m off too Dublin for a couple of days. Be back on the 25th. Ahoy mateys!
Arrr, me hearties!
‘Tis that time o’ the year again, me hearties! Yarrr! Now, where’s me grog?
China bans reincarnation
The Chinese government has outlawed the practice of reincarnating for Buddhist monks in Tibet without their permission. In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into […]
Finally a good Bittorrent client for Debian
I finally found a good Bittorrent client for Debian. Freeloader. The original homepage doesn’t appear to be live anymore, so perhaps it is unmaintained. But, it’s written in Python, so if I need some functionality that it doesn’t have, I can just add it myself. Here’s a screenshot: Things that are missing (which I’ll probably […]
Firefox, IE, Opera and Safary all equally safe?
NU.nl reports about a (English) Report about the safety of the web. In it, CA reports: Browsers are one of the most commonly used applications today. Many people believe that Mozilla Firefox is more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer, but their vulnerabilities are on par. In the first half of 2007, NIST reported 52 vulnerabilities […]
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