Feb 2 is the tentative due date for the DFL rewrite. Actually it’s the first phase of the upgrade, which will bring it up to speed with the current site in many ways. Additional functionality will be added every few weeks after that. One of the biggest new features in this update will be the …
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DFL update
My boss wants a nice looking front-end to the new DFL site, even if all the links are broken, so expect something next week. As it currently stands the new design is going to borrow heavily from the current one, though it should use space a little bit better and display information a bit more …
WordPress 2.0 Final released
WordPress 2.0 final was released today. Since you’re at this blog, you’ve already seen it in action. I’ve read some comments on Digg where people are pretty happy with it – especially the spam zapper. http://www.wordpress.org/
Essential PHP Security
Just received Chris Shiflett’s Essential PHP Security book in the mail today. If it’s like the other O’Reilly books it should be pretty good. It’s pretty short – a smidgen over 100 pages, so it’ll be a good quick read. Plan on seeing practical examples of how to apply these security techniques – here. Merry …
File access control
… and bandwidth throttling, using PHP. If you’re in a situation where you need to control who has access to certain files/downloads, PHP can do it all for you. Even better, you can use the same script to throttle how quickly data is sent to the user. Let’s take a look at this problem: First, …
Digital Fish Library
I’d like to introduce you to the Digital Fish Library, of which I’m a developer on. The idea of this library is to catalog MRI data from hundreds of fish species worldwide and provide online analysis tools. It’s like open source resarch, so to speak. Scientists can log in and do dissections and other analyses …
ApacheCon Photos
I’m sorry this is such a lame post, but I’m in one of Chris Shiflett’s photos before Rasmus’s talk at ApacheCon. This Photo Me: The second person from the left, sitting down. You can really only see the back of my head, and my shoulders, but I’m physically in-front of the camera man. Rasmus: the …
Coming from Blogger *shudder*
Blogger is nice and pretty, and somewhat easy to use, but it’s really not that great. After a few short days on the service I’m already switching to WordPress (here) for the moment, and probably soon to switch to my own hosted version of WP in coming weeks.
The Meat at ApacheCon
Today really was my day at ApacheCon. Four of the five talks were on things I’m truly interested in – mostly PHP (see previous post). Rasmus gave an interesting talk about using PHP at Yahoo!. He gave some particulars about making high-performance, scalable systems. The other portion of his talk focused around XML support in …
ApacheCon day 3
I’m in the company of celebrities in the world of PHP. I just finished listening to a talk by Andrei Zmievski on Unicode character support in the upcoming PHP 6. Though I don’t know much about supporting multiple character sets (I’ve had not reason just yet to internatiionalize my code), I do know the problem/difficulty …