Second part in this series of discussions/tutorials on storing hierarchical data in a database. You can read the first on here. The original article I read that got me started on these ideas can be found here (you’ll notice the tree diagrams are similar). Most credit should be given to Gijs Van Tulder; I simply …
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Article one: Chris Shiflett: SERVER_NAME Versus HTTP_HOST Article two: Sean Coates: XSS Woes I thought both were quite insightful, though Sean’s stands-out more because PHP_SELF is used so often (be sure to check-out his phpinfo(); example at the end of the post). One method, as he explained, is to put the $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] variable into htmlentities() …
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The DFL is in the news again! http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org/the_news/ Included in the most recent updates: News segment from NBC 7/39 in San Diego, and the press release at the SIO website. Also, link to our little spot in Nature (one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world). Nature 440, 396-397 (23 March 2006) ~Cameron
Below is a comment I posted on a friend’s dev blog. Looks like he’s turning RoR because RoR just seems pretty sweet to him (originally a Perl programmer, so he welcomes the improvements Ruby’s brought to the field). Just a bit of background: Doug is my right-hand man on Flood’s new website. He’s pretty new …
So far it looks like my NVDIA Fedora Core 4 video driver install post is by far the most popular. Before we know it, I’ll probably end up doing a Fedora Core 5 NVIDIA video driver install tutorial (though I can’t imagine it would be much different). Coming in a close second is the rsync …
(Click to see part 2a and 2b) In this first of two (or three) posts, I’m going to present a fairly conventional way of representing hierarchical data in a database. (The original article I read that got me interested on posting these ideas can be found here, hence the similarity in the tree structure). My …
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Today is the big day – our press release is now out, and even featured on the SIO (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) website. In just under an hour we’ll begin scanning a juvenile great white shark as part of the press “event.” If you haven’t read my other posts on the DFL, here’s a brief …
First off, I’ve been having some problems getting things up and running due to a few errors in the code. Tried some of the fix suggestions by Andi Gutmans here, but to no avail. I also didn’t try too hard to correct these problems. After all, I was more interested in seeing how the code …
Version 1.0 of the Zend framework is finally out: http://framework.zend.com I’m going to install it and do what I can over the next couple days and report back to you. Another link, for the interested: Zend PHP Framework Webcast
Well folks, Newsvine is finally out of private beta! It’s a great spin on aggregating news over the net. First, it claims to put wire news up faster than any other site because it skips all the editorial processes that most news websites (think CNN) go through before anything makes a page. Thousands of articles …