architecture The Problem with TodaysMeet TodaysMeet is a project I started in 2008 to help my father solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as popular as it is—mostly in education—
django The Evolution of SUMO When I joined the SUMO team six months ago, the team was just starting a discussion of “where do we go from here?” SUMO was built on a CMS called TikiWiki, and had
Code WP: Better Search Widget 1.1 Better Search Widget 1.1 is a significant upgrade to Better Search Widget that adds new features and fixes an old bug with internationalization. Features (New features in bold.) Optional default value. Optional,
attack Responsible SQL: How to Authenticate Users Most SQL-injection articles set a horrible example for young programmers. Here is a very typical “bad example” of why you need to escape user data before it goes into SQL queries: (ed. The
Back-end Connecting PHP, IIS 6, and SQL Server 2005 I know I will be accosted for this, but at work we needed to run PHP on IIS 6 (fairly simple) and connect it to a remote database server running SQL Server 2005
Back-end Help Me Scale I’ve been reading Eran Hammer-Lahav’s intelligent posts on microblog scalability, and now I’m concerned about my own “microblog” site, Picofiction. Similar to social networks, social updates, social messaging, social… Like
How To How to: Upgrade or Recompile PHP on RHEL5 (Outdated) **Update: **This post is nearly two years old, and this is not how I would recommend upgrading PHP on RHEL, yet it continues to get traffic. If I can get my hands on