August, 2007
Finally, the first release candidate of phpSysInfo is now available to download here. Continue reading if you want all the juicy details.
I often find myself in the need to create a md5/sha256 hash for various reasons. Most of the time I use Google to find a javascript tool that i can use. This is fine, but a bit inconvenient, so i decided to create a little script that can create all sorts of hashes from a string.
We’re pleased to announce the latest release of jQuery: jQuery 1.1.4. Barring any horrible mistakes, this release will be the last of the 1.1.x branch - leading us up to the release of jQuery 1.2 in September.
The first release candidate of phpSysInfo 3.0 will soon be available for download.
This is the first new major release in over 5 years, and it includes a whole new interface.
phpSysInfo 2.5.4 was released yesterday, to fix a security issue.
The latest release of phpSysInfo can be downloaded here.
One of the worst thing a web developer can do is to resize, or even worse move a users browser window. Luckily there is a simple way of preventing this in both Firefox and Opera.
One of the new wonders in PHP 5.2 is the filter extension. This extension has just seven function, but still provides an extremely powerful way of handling user input.
One of my most popular posts is one from 2005 about regenerating session id's in PHP.
Because of this I thought it was about time I wrote an updated post about this topic.
Why should I regenerate the session ID?
One reason. To prevent session hijacking.
Session hijacking is when a hacker get to know a user's session ID, and uses it to pretend he is that user.
Wow, I really don't know what hit me (yet) but I was fiddling with my server today and suddenly realized that it was under enormous pressure.
By the time I managed to get a screen shot it was all over, and things has returned to normal. Only left my swap partition almost full.
You can see that the load average the last five minutes is above 7, and that's seriously high.
While we are talking about load average check out this article about the mysterious load average.
I was wondering of there was an smarter way to print the whole alphabet in PHP than just creating an array containing all off the letters by my self.
I present to you, the range() function.