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News AggregatorUnderstanding AJAX excerpt available at computerworld.comThe lead story at ComputerWorld.com is an excerpt from my book Understanding AJAX. If you are thinking about buying the book, but needed more information to make a decision nows your chance. Head over to ComputerWorld read the chapter, check out the table of contents, and then pick up the book at Amazon [...]
Webthumb Rendering Engine ReleasedWebthumb uses a custom browser thats embeds the mozilla rendering engine to take its website screenshots.
We call that custom browser pageprint, and its svn repo is now available. The browser was originally written to generate PDF’s for Clearhealth so most of my recent development has centered around that. If anyone has tips on [...]
Understanding AJAX reviews and Table of ContentsI’ve added the Table of Contents to this site, so if your wondering more about the topics covered in the book, thats a good place to start.
I’ve also added a reviews section that links to reviews of the book, the first one is already out from AP Lawrence who got a copy of the pre-release [...]
AJAX AnswersThe last couple days have been a lot of fun. I was at LinuxWorld and did a book signing yesterday, my publisher had the first copies of Understanding AJAX at their booth. They should be showing up at bookstores and Amazon in the next couple weeks.
Your AJAX answers from my AJAX questions post [...]
PHP 4.4.4 and PHP 5.1.5 ReleasedThe PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.1.5 and 4.4.4. These two releases address a series of security problems that were discovered since the release of PHP 5.1.4 and 4.4.3. The new releases include the following changes: Added missing safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the error_log(), file_exists(), imap_open() and imap_reopen() functions. Fixed overflows inside str_repeat() and wordwrap() functions on 64bit systems. Fixed possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in cURL extension and on PHP 5.1.5 with realpath cache. Fixed overflow in GD extension on invalid GIF images. Fixed a buffer overflow inside sscanf() function. Fixed an out of bounds read inside stripos() function. Fixed memory_limit restriction on 64 bit system. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcements (5.1.5 and 4.4.4), and the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLogs (PHP 4, PHP 5).
AJAX Question updatesI’ll be answering your AJAX questions tomorrow, so if you have any thing else, head over to my last post and ask away.
Also I’ll be at Linux World tomorrow so if you’re taking part in the healthcare day make sure to stop by and take a look at Clearhealth.
You got AJAX questions I got AnswersHave you wondered whats the easiest way to submit a form using AJAX, what the status of HTML_AJAX development is, or what is covered in Understanding AJAX?
Well nows your chance.
Submit your questions general AJAX questions, questions about my soon to be released book Understanding AJAX, questions on HTML_AJAX, or anything else I might know the [...]
Adding AJAX to a Website step by step, Part III have a lot more change’s i’d like to make to webthumb so the last article (Adding AJAX to a website step by step) is now the start of the series. In this article will be taking front page of webthumb and making it live. The the stats and recent thumbnails will [...]
Adding AJAX to a website step by stepUpdate: The next article in this series is now complete.
Webthumb is a small project of mine that takes a snapshot of a website and gives you thumbnails in 4 different sizes. Currently the site is rather boring and has a couple of usability problems especially on the pickup page. Over the next couple [...]
I’ll be at LinuxWorldI’ll be at LinuxWorld on the 15 and the 16. On the 15th i’ll be demoing Clearhealth as part of Healthcare Day, and on the 16th I’ll be talking to people about my book.
Let me know if your going to be there, maybe we can meet up.
Understanding AJAX Digital Shortcut AvailableA chapter from my book, Understanding AJAX has been made available as a digital shortcut. This chapter covers the different ways you can use the data you transfer using XMLHttpRequest.
Document centric approaches based on HTML and XML are described as well as various RPC approaches are shown.
Personally i tend to use JSON based RPC [...]
I’m MarriedMegan and I tied the knot on the 29th, and then spent a couple of days relaxing in sedona.
We have a couple hundred pictures from the wedding and reception online. I ended up writing a simple picture viewer to show them all.
New Improved Yummy ADOdb Session HandlerADOdb, the database library i maintain, has had support for storing session data in a database for a long time. However there was one limitation that always continued to bug me: the fact that all the PHP servers using database-backed sessions needed to synchronize their times to ensure that the session timers worked properly. Well in the latest version of ADOdb (4.91), released a few days ago, we have the new Session2 implementation. This time, we always use the database server clock to keep track of times. We no longer rely on the PHP app servers to set the session timers, so even if the clocks of these app servers are out of synch, sessions are not affected. This change required us to change the database table format used, but that is a small price to pay for the added flexibility. You can read more in the ADOdb session docs. Usage is really simple: include_once("adodb/session/adodb-session2.php"); ADOdb_Session::config($driver='mysql', $host, $user, $password, $database,$options=false); session_start();
PHP 4.4.3 ReleasedThe PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.3. This release combines small number of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. Some of the key changes of PHP 4.4.3 include: Disallow certain characters in session names. Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function. Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function. Improved safe_mode check for the error_log() function. Fixed cross-site scripting inside the phpinfo() function. Fixed offset/length parameter validation inside the substr_compare() function. Upgraded bundled PCRE library to version 6.6 Over 20 various bug fixes. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 4 ChangeLog.
Understanding AJAX went to the PrinterThe milestone i’ve been waiting for has finally happened.
My book went to the printer yesterday at 3:30 p.m
Understanding AJAX Cover CompleteI just signed off on the finished Understanding AJAX cover.
Its exciting to be so close to having the finished book.
AzPHP has a meeting tonight, hope too see you there.
Webthumb updatesWebthumb got off the ground yesterday without too many problems. It ran into problems right out of the gate since a large number of sites don’t seem to want to finish loading correctly. I was able to fix this by adding an extra timeout handler to the browser code. If we stop [...]
WebthumbSo about 11 months (wow that long time ago, feels like last month) I used some code I had lying around to make some thumbnails of all the planet php blogs. Work priorities has finally allowed me to work on that code base again, and I was able to get things up to a [...]
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