architecture The Problem with TodaysMeet TodaysMeet [http://todaysmeet.com/] is a project I started in 2008 to help my father [http://speedchange.blogspot.com] solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as popular as it is—mostly in education—never ceases to amaze me. Unfortunately, I don’t give
django The Evolution of SUMO When I joined the SUMO [http://support.mozilla.com/] 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 [http://tikiwiki.org/], and had diverged pretty significantly in two years. (David Tenser wrote a
Code WP: Better Search Widget 1.1 Better Search Widget 1.1 [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/better-search-widget.zip] is a significant upgrade to Better Search Widget [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/wp-plugin-better-search-widget-113/] that adds new features and fixes an old bug with internationalization. Features (New features in bold.) * Optional default value. * Optional, custom widget title**.** * 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 symbol « is a line break that’s not in the real code.) 1. $username = $_POST[‘username’]; // username=
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 [http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html]) and connect it to a remote database server running SQL Server 2005 (not terrible, once I gave up the Microsoft way)
Back-end Help Me Scale I’ve been reading Eran Hammer-Lahav’s intelligent [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/04/scaling-a-micro.html] posts on [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/scaling-a-micro.html] microblog scalability [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/on-scaling-a-mi.html], and now I’m concerned about my own “microblog” site, Picofiction
How To How to: Upgrade or Recompile PHP on RHEL5 (Outdated) **Update: **This post is nearly two years old, and this is not how I would recommend upgrading PHP on RHEL, yet it continues to get traffic.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 a copy of RHEL, I’ll update this (or I might try using Fedora just to compare)