Ruby on Sitepoint

Posted in General by GWild on September 23, 2005 @ 07:01

Sitepoint now has a Ruby forum.

I’m just starting to look at Ruby, so this is a welcome addition. This is particularly good news in light of the fact that some serious programming talent, such as Marcus Baker, Jason Sweat, et al are already posting there.

Essential PHP Security

Posted in General by GWild on September 12, 2005 @ 16:58

Chris Shiflett‘s new book Essential PHP Security is now available for preorder at Amazon.com.

If the security of your php code is important to you, the addition of this volume will be worth the cost.

A Visit to the Trainyard

Posted in General by GWild on @ 08:10

After hearing mention of the Ruby programming language I did some reading about it this past weekend. Ruby sounds interesting to me in my ongoing effort to learn more about OOP.

In my reading I found references to a web application development framework called Ruby on Rails (RoR), which is written entirely in Ruby itself. I downloaded RoR, tweaked Apache to run FastCGI, and took a look.

It appears that applications written using RoR follow the MVC pattern. So far it appears to be a pretty slick framework. I will next gather documentation and tutorials for RoR and do more exploration.

I wasn’t planning on learning a new language – I’m still very new to my current workhorse php – but I like the fact that Ruby is strictly OOP.

A small work project which I was hoping to do in C# was recently cancelled, so I think I’ll fill that study time with Ruby for now.

Nearly Complete Migration

Posted in General by GWild on September 3, 2005 @ 14:12

I have migrated all but one section of my old site to this blog.

Once I hack my recipe database functionality to a standalone (my wife states that she MUST have the recipe functionality) I will shut the old site down. See the related post below.

EDIT:
I have taken down the old site. You’ll notice that the Recipe Database text in the sidebar is no longer a link. When I finish the standalone Recipe DB I’ll change the text to a link.

I Bought a PHP Shirt

Posted in General by GWild on @ 05:18

Ben Ramsey’s Blog has an entry showing a shirt he designed. The shirt is emblazoned (nice word eh?) with the php security mantra:

Filter Input Escape Output

You can get the shirt with or without the likeness of Chris Shiflett.

I bought the blue/white with FIEO on the chest.

See Ben’s post for details.

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