Essential PHP Security
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
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.