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Delicious Outage Link Dump

December 19th, 2005

Del.icio.us has been down for a while. I use it for my public bookmarks, which are listed on the side of this blog. Here is a post with some recent random things that I would bookmark if I could.

The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts – “The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building” (along [...]

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PHP Book sales trends versus Java and Ruby

December 8th, 2005

O’Reilly radar has an interesting graph of 2004 versus 2005 book sales for a variety of languages. The big news is that Ruby books sales are up 1552% and Java book sales are down 4%. This would be consistent with my observations from Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java. A [...]

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Improving Web Application Installation as a Security Imperative

December 7th, 2005

It looks there is a Mambo worm out now. I read Hackers Hitting Popular Apps a couple of weeks ago and it mentioned that hackers are targeting PHP apps among other things. Dog bites man for some. More interesting was this quote:

“The bottom line is that security has been set back nearly [...]

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Zend Framework Webcast

December 5th, 2005

I guess I missed the Zend PHP Framework webcast on Friday. I was looking forward to it, but I signed up a while ago and forgot about it. By the time I got the reminder email, it was too late. Fortunately, the recording is now available. If you have an interest [...]

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The rumors of PEAR’s demise are greatly exaggerated

December 1st, 2005

Tobias Schlitt has a lengthy comparison of the new ezComponents and PEAR. He goes to great lengths to show that ezComponents and PEAR do not compete.
I’ve also seen some ill informed speculation that Zend PHP Framework will kill off PEAR. Um, not gonna happen. PEAR is a library, not a framework. [...]

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