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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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Installing PEAR Based Applications

April 19th, 2005

Ok, Greg Beaver’s work on channels has resurrected my interest in PEAR. I am interested in providing WACT on a PEAR channel and I’d like to better integrate WACT with some PEAR packages. My primary concern is over the installation implications.
I didn’t find a “powered by PEAR” section on the PEAR website. [...]

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PEAR Channels

March 7th, 2005

I am very interested in the new PEAR channels. I like where this is going. I especially like the idea of web application installers (versus library installers).

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pear config-set preferred_state beta

November 24th, 2004

I wish i could just do:
pear install Calendar beta
instead of:
pear config-set preferred_state beta
pear install Calendar
pear config-set preferred_state stable

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