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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 27 Sep 2007 at 18:50
A forum thread on Lowter a few weeks ago brought up the matter of password security. For most web developers, I think, the issue of password security is not the top on the list. Most of the time, password security is satisfied with a simple MD5 hash. Personally, I do not know much about password security other than a few articles I have read. Due to the forum thread, I have been trying to verse myself in the matter now. Take a look at the forum thread and this page on password security because they have some really useful information..…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 26 Sep 2007 at 21:37
Understanding Apache's .htaccess files is crucial when using the Apache platform. Whilst its most popular use is most likely mod_rewrite, it has so many other uses as well. I recently came across a web page about .htaccess tricks that includes a lot of the lesser known abilities of .htaccess. It contains a ton of useful information, so make sure to keep this in your bookmarks for future reference.
Sitepoint also recently published an article about Apache's mod_rewrite module that has some good examples of its usage.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 22 Sep 2007 at 16:04
Mozilla's development community is finally attending to one of the largest, if not the largest, technical problem with the Mozilla Firefox web browser: memory. Over the years, each version of Firefox has used more memory and has leaked more memory due to poor programming. Users find that Firefox runs like molasses if left running overnight or if the user is browsing with a large number of tabs.
Detailed on this blog, the memory fixes should be present in Firefox 3.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 8 Sep 2007 at 8:56
If you have ever picked up a book or visited a website about design patterns, it is almost certain the examples in those resources are in Java. However, Doug on the forums posted a link to the website Patterns for PHP, which focuses on design patterns in PHP. Currently they have articles on a good selection of design patterns:
Singleton
Registry
Factory
Abstract Factory
Strategy
Composite
Decorator
Lazy Initialisation
Transfer Object
For the most part these are the design patterns that people will use the most. If …
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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 6 Sep 2007 at 21:16
I found a website with a load of links to downloadable web development "cheat sheets". These are simple pages that you can print out and use as references whilst programming or designing. They can be pretty handy tools and they are free (as in beer)!
Personally, I tend to whip out one of my SitePoint books for a quick reference because they are right by my desk.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 5 Sep 2007 at 20:09
The International Organisation for Standardisation has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard. The Open Document Format (used in OpenOffice.org) is already an international standard.
Late last week, the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) nullified its vote for the Microsoft document standard. Earlier, Microsoft had been accused of offering benefits to partner companies to vote in support of OOXML. However, the SIS denies any connection between the accusations and the nullification.
A se…
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