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Cake, Drake, Drupal and a Duck

Posted on: Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 in: PHP

I have been studying both Cake and CI for a while, and I found both are just indispensible. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. But according to the blog, whose owner tested them with a benchmarking tool, CI seemed to be able to carry out more requests in a second than Cake and Symfony for [...]

Joomla! Multiple Vulnerabilities

Posted on: Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 in: General, PHP

If you are using Joomla version 1.0.10 or less, it’s time to update again. According to many security advisories, it’s got high known and unknown impacts.
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, where some have unknown impacts, and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and bypass certain security restrictions.
1) [...]

Better Than Flowers On Valentine’s Day

Posted on: Thursday, February 16th, 2006 in: Java, Linux, PHP

Here comes Valentine’s Gift from Yahoo! For our everyday’s HTML and AJAX needs, Yahoo! has just given us Yahoo! User Interface Library, and all the components are released under Open Source License (BSD License). Better than flowers, huh?
Yeah, we’ve got libraries and that pushes us further into endless possibilities of creating useful applications. To make [...]

Feeding RSS

Posted on: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 in: General, Java, PHP

RSS is just an XML file that follows XML 1.0 specification. RSS simply allows us to syndicate a website contents into another website. If you want to add RSS feeds into your website, I guess we will need the read the followings:

The RSS 1.0 specification.
The RSS 2.0 specification.
RSS File Format and history.
RSS Advisory Board.
PHP [...]

Mambo, OpenSourceMatters and Joomla!

Posted on: Saturday, September 10th, 2005 in: General, PHP

Mambo OpenSource is a good CMS software with which I have implemented half a dozen websites. It has already won “Best Open Source Solution” awards by LinuxWorld 2005. Mambo was born when an Australian company, Miro, put their codes on SourceForge and get it licensed under GPL. The Open Source community welcomed the project and [...]