Archive for February, 2007
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Book Review: ProPHP Security
ProPHP Security
Published by: Apress
Authors: Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell
Book Site | Sample Chapter: Preventing SQL Injection | Table of Contents
At first, I thought this book was all about cleaning your input variables and filtering your output, XSS attacks, SQL injections but I was most presently surprised to find that it was that and so much [...]
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Added Feedburner
Hey, I added Feedburner to this site AND to DevChix … still learning about all I can do with it…
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Soooooooooo Happy!
I’ve been trying for some time to get a Debian machine configured with Ruby and Rails. I always had problems with ruby-zlib! I tried building from source… finding a package… doing this and that, standing on my head, whatever .. and finally I found this blog that gave step by step instructions on installing Rails [...]
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
PHP User Group Meeting Report
I presented some features of XDebug at the February PHP User Group meeting, which we discovered is 5 days away from our “10 year birthday” of the group! If I had realized it earlier, I would have brought a cake!
I talked about installing XDebug, which was sort of a pain at first since this was [...]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Windy City Perl Meeting
Tonight was fantastic! We had Chris McAvoy, fellow language geek as myself, talk about the favorite parts of his languages. He started by stating the criteria for learning a new language - from what I remember he said he likes good documentation and a good interactive console. Ruby has great both, Python too… Perl is [...]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Hear-Ye Hear-Ye
It seems that some people misunderstand my love for language as having no focus.
I like going to usergroups and meeting fellow geeks - in my free time … I like learning languages - its fun. Some people collect stamps, or thimbles, or pencils! I collect languages.
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Compiling Ruby 1.8.5 on Ubuntu or I’m not afraid of make!
If there is one thing I learned from perl — is not to be afraid of make! I installed countless perl modules… and when I first started using Linux heavily, I had to compile some apps! Yikes. But not afraid no more…
I go to the RubyOnRails.com download page to see what the latest version of [...]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Feb Ruby Meeting Report - Capistrano and Starfish
I came to the meeting knowing a bit about capistrano and nothing about starfish and left with a firms grasp of basic concepts of both!
In short:
Capistrano - A tool for deploying actions on multiple servers. Not necessarily for Rails and you don’t need Ruby on the deployment servers! Presented by Michael H Buselli
Starfish - [...]
