I have noticed some confusion recently about the question: “Which came first–ASP or PHP?” According to WikiPedia: ASP 1.0 (distributed with IIS 3.0) on December 10, 1996 (More on ASP) PHP was originally designed as a small set of Perl scripts, followed by a rewritten set of CGI binaries written in C by Rasmus Lerdorf …
Net_Monitor 0.2.0 has just been released with support for SMS messaging to the clickatell and sms2email gateways. Many thanks to Bertrand Gugger for making this a reality. For those of you with SMS devices compatible with these networks, we would love to have your feedback on how well the SMS integration works. Bear in mind …
Following up on a previous post about Net_Monitor, Bertrand was able to get test accounts with clickatell and sms2email. He tells me both are working well now, and we should be able to release the latest version with SMS support soon.
This is a security and compatability release. Thanks to feedback from administrators running Windows-based web servers, many changes have been made to make SimpleQuiz platform-independent (i.e. Windows friendly). Furthermore, SimpleQuiz now runs with register_globals = Off and error_reporting(E_ALL). Finally, SimpleQuiz now comes with a brief INSTALL.txt file that includes basic instructions on installing the package. …
Congratulations to Chris Shiflett on the launch of his new PHP consultants group: Brain Bulb. Chris and his colleagues definitely make the top of my list for PHP security audits. Any company that runs PHP and is serious about security (and those that aren’t should be) should check out their services.
Between the recent hack of the main phpBB site and a slew of vulnerability reports on PHP|Arch’s PHPSec Mailing List, phpBB has lost credibility in the PHP security community. As Chris Shiflett has been pointing out over and over, you can’t compensate for a poor fundamental design just by patching. I agree. Last night, we …
