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Join me at the 2008 DC PHP Conference - Tony Bibbs on PHP
A couple of weeks ago the folks at the DC PHP Conference announced the speakers for the 2008 installment of the conference held at George Washington University and yours truly was selected as one of the speakers. We’re talking PHP celebs like Chris Shiflett, Chris Jones, David Sklar, Cal Evans, Eli White, Keith Casey […]
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Protection Against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - Tony Bibbs on PHP
In working on the Geeklog 2 codebase, much of work forms the basis for stuff I do at work, I finally figured it was time to add handling for CSRF to the codebase in a way that forces it’s use without the developer having to explicitly do anything. In my experience security has, sadly, […]
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Tony Bibbs’ Blog: Join me at the 2008 DC PHP Conference (Frameworks Talk)
Tony Bibbs has posted about the upcoming DC PHP Conference (happening June 2nd through the 4th in Washington, DC) and his talk “Fed Up of Framework Hype?”
For those of you that occasionally browse these pages you may recall a prior post on the subject. Given there was a bit of interest in that post I […]
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Tony Bibbs’ Blog: Zend Framework’s Official PEAR Channel?
In this new post to his blog today, Tony Bibbs asks a question that pops up every once and a while surrounding the Zend Framework - why don’t they use the PEAR package distribution methods to handle the releases of the framework? (Specifically as pertains to PEAR channels)
Why hasn’t Zend provided an official PEAR channel? […]
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Tony Bibbs’ Blog: Microsoft and PHP
Tony Bibbs, in the wake of last week’s surprise from Microsoft to Yahoo, has posted a few of his thoughts on the matter.
I woke up this morning to the news of a $44 billion buy-out offer from Microsoft for Yahoo!. This is being covered from all angles in various tech sites like Slashdot but I […]
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Office Reports in PHP - Tony Bibbs on PHP
Every so often you get posed with a problem needing a quick fix. This was the case in a project we did for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship when they needed us to produce Office-based reports…you know, spreadsheets, word documents, etc using PHP. Some of you Windows users probably have […]
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Microsoft and PHP - Tony Bibbs on PHP
Man, what a weird 24 hours it’s been. So yesterday, through one of the Geeklog mailing lists, I got this email from a Microsoft rep. Then I woke up this morning to the news of a $44 billion buy-out offer from Microsoft for Yahoo!. This is being covered from all angles in […]
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The Problem with PHP is PHP Itself - Tony Bibbs on PHP
According to IT experts from five years ago PHP wasn’t ready for the Enterprise. While Microsoft and Java developers were vaguely familiar with the PHP acronym, IT managers were still in the dark. PHP developers have always had to deal with what PHP couldn’t do. PHP couldn’t possibly run real business applications. […]
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Need Some MVC in Your Life? - Tony Bibbs on PHP
Ok, so I got turned onto this blog entry on Ian Christian’s blog. If you read it, it references a phpguru entry that got my attention as it has thoughts on MVC by Rasmus Lerdorf
I don’t want to get caught-up in the rant so much but to take a chance to point out a […]
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Tony Bibbs’ Blog: The Problem with PHP is PHP Itself
According to Tony Bibbs, PHP’s real problem is itself.:
So what do I mean when I say PHP’s problem is PHP itself? […] One word. Sustainability.
He suggests that, while PHP has made a big splash in the areas it’s hit, it is still tripping over its own feet. PHP, the language, can meet the needs of […]
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