Archive for April 27th, 2007

Secunia.com: Ubuntu update for PHP

Secunia has issued an advisory today for Ubuntu users - an upgrade has been released to correct a few vulnerabilities.

Ubuntu has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, gain escalated privileges, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), compromise a vulnerable system, and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The Secunia post has links to all of the packages you’ll need (for each kind of architecture) to get things up to date and corrected. This issue has been marked as “Moderately Critical”.

Continue Reading · Add comment

Zend: “Webinar Wednesday” Announcement

According to this post on the php|architect website, Zend is going to start offering online seminars (”Webinars”).

Webinar Wednesdays will be an ongoing series of webinars and demos focusing on various development, deployment and business related PHP topics. Webinars will include presentations, demos and Q&A. Expected topics include: Enterprise PHP, Java Integration, PHP Security and Training.

The webinars are free of charge and are open to any developer wishing to attend. Many more topics will come in the future, but for now, there are only three on the agenda:

All will be happening around the same time of day (8 to 9:30am Pacific) and you can enroll at any time - up to the time of the event, of course.

Continue Reading · Add comment

Pádraic Brady’s Blog: Complex Views with the Zend Framework - Part 3: Composite View Pattern

In his continuing look at using the composite design pattern inside the Zend Framework views (as helpers), Pádraic Brady has posted part three demonstrating the creation of complex views.

In this post, I offer a brief explanation of the Composite View pattern. It’s beyond its scope to show an implementation using the Zend Framework though that’s what I’m building up to accomplish in a later blog entry.

He goes through what the design pattern is (including a UML diagram showing it’s relations) and how it’s commonly used. Following this, he shows a little bit of the code in action that includes the use of an attach() method to include the “child Views” at certain locations.

Continue Reading · Add comment

Job Post: Bartfield Search Inc. Seeks LAMP Developer (Yardley, PA)

Company Bartfield Search Inc.
Location Yardley, PA
Title LAMP Developer
Summary

Participate in the efforts to develop and continually enhance the software for web applications as part of a web development team. Must be able to work in high-volume web server environment with a “farm” of web servers with load balancing, a relational database, and design server-side software appropriate to deploy in such a server environment.

Candidate must have experience following disciplined software development processes. Candidate must demonstrate relevant experience developing test procedures and executing system integration tests to ensure overall quality levels.

Position is a hands-on engineering position. Candidate must coordinate with others to manage technical data/requirements, system requirements, rollout schedules, system capacity, and test results.

Candidate must have strong configuration management (CM) habits and be capable of managing development on parallel simultaneous development tracks. Furthermore, candidate will design, write, and maintain CM tools to automate controlled web application deployment to servers.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required. Minimum of five years relevant engineering experience required.

The candidate will have a demonstrated ability to:

  • Build web applications as part of a team environment, with very strong
  • verbal and written communication skills.
  • Design, develop, and maintain web applications using PHP.
  • Design, deploy, and maintain relational database systems using MySQL
  • Develop, debug, and maintain web pages using XHTML and CSS, and JavaScript.

Submit resume and salary requirements to traci@bartfieldsearch.com.

Link More Information

Continue Reading · Add comment

Ilia Alshanetsky’s Blog: 5.2.2RC2 Released

In conjunction with this other post, Ilian Alshantesky has posted his own announcement about the latest Release Candidate from the PHP group - PHP 5.2.2 RC2.

Since there were no major regressions in RC1 and RC2 only resolved pre-existing issues the goal is to proceed with the final release next Thursday. To make sure that the release is solid and does not break any existing code I would like ask everyone to test it against their code to see if everything still works as expected. If you identify any new issues since 5.2.1, please let me know.

Here’s the downloads:

Continue Reading · Add comment