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PHP Security
Thursday, December 14th, 2006hebrev() and friends
Monday, December 11th, 2006Recently Andrei approached me and asked what I think should be done with hebrev() and hebrevc() in the context of the Unicode-enabled PHP 6. For those of you who don't know, hebrev() (which stands for Hebrew Reverse) and hebrevc() (which stands for Hebrew Reverse & Convert) are remnants from ...
Stefan Esser quits security@php.net
Saturday, December 9th, 2006Yesterday, I had a heated debate with Stefan Esser, one of the most active people (if not the most active person) in the field of PHP security. I told him that I, as well as a lot of other contributors to the PHP project, are at odds with the ...
Zend wins IVA and Red Herring’s Best Software Startup award
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006Yesterday, Zend won Israel Venture Association (IVA) and Red Herring's Best Software Startup award for the year 2006. Those of you who know the Israeli hitech landscape can understand what an amazing feat this is; For those who don't, Zend (and two other startups in other hitech areas) ...
Government-Organized PHP Seminar in France
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Yesterday in Paris, I spoke in a one day seminar about PHP, that was organized by DGME, a French governmental agency. It was held in a conference room in one of the Minefi (Ministry of Finance) buildings, no less. Most of the attendees were coming from various governmental ...
NYPHPCon 2006 Program Announced Guy Harpaz opens a new blog!
Thursday, May 18th, 2006We are pleased to announce the speaker, tutorial and keynote program for NYPHPCon 2006. The New York PHP Conference Guy Harpaz, the product manager for Zend Studio (and its former development team leader), has opened a new blog. His likely topics for blogging would revolve around the Eclipse PHP ...
Guy Harpaz opens a new blog!
Thursday, May 11th, 2006Guy Harpaz, the product manager for Zend Studio (and its former development team leader), has opened a new blog. His likely topics for blogging would revolve around the Eclipse PHP IDE project, and upcoming versions of Studio, so it should be quite interesting. Check it out!
Get Your Pocket PHP Reference and Help Hurricane Relief Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!
Friday, March 17th, 2006php|architect has announced the publication of php|architect's Pocket PHP Reference, a handy guide to every function in PHP, inclusive of syntax, extension and description. It's a perfect companion for all your coding work, perfect for looking up function syntax in a pinch It's been a while since I personally contributed code ...
Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!
Monday, September 12th, 2005It's been a while since I personally contributed code to this project, but a bunch of my most-wanted features are now in there, most notably multilevel code completion and native web services support. Multilevel code completion means that almost always you'd get code completion for objects, even if they're return values ...
Following up…
Thursday, September 8th, 2005Can anybody spot the new sponsor here? You have to admit it wouldn't be the first on your guess list.
Selling PHP to your boss? A piece of cake.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005I'm not sure how many of you have been to the Z/PC&E2005 (*) as of late, but it's definitely an interesting visit. While it's not the first PHP conference to feature some pretty impressive sponsors, I think it would be fair to say that it's the first PHP event ...
PHP and Oracle
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005As some people may have noticed, Zend Core for Oracle went into a public beta stage a couple of days ago. This free product is excellent news for anybody using PHP and Oracle together, since the OCI8 extension was vastly improved to bring it on par with (and sometimes ...
Scotch is gone
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005My beloved dog, which was adopted by my parents when I went to the army, has passed away yesterday, when I was on my way to the US. She died of cancer at the age of 13.5. It's amazingly sad that those magnificent creatures live so little. ...
PHP 5’s SOAP extension and SalesForce
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005In the last few days I've been working on a piece of code in PHP that had to integrate with SalesForce. During the course of this work I bumped into some minor annoyances (or rather, a minor annoyance) with ext/soap, which I was able to quickly fix thanks to ...
PHP History Gem found!
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005While deleting old files to save some space on my homedir, I stumbled upon a PHP history gem - David Axmark's photos of what was the first PHP conference ever - the PHP Developers' Meeting, or PDM, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 2000. That's more than 5 years ...
New Zend Studio plugins released
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Two new plugins were officially released today by Zend. First, a plugin that allows integration of PHP code snippets from zend.com's code gallery, directly into Adobe GoLive. That replicates a feature that's built into Zend Studio 4.0, and makes it available (for free) in Adobe's HTML WYSIWIG editor, quite a ...
