Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
If you’re looking at streamlining the usage of wine on your Linux box, checkout Wine-doors. It’s a cool software which makes installation of Windows software easy - just click and it’ll download and install, especially the usual stuff like IE, DirectX and some games.
They have a deb installer which works great on Ubuntu. The initial setup took around 5 minutes when I first started up Wine-doors.
Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software.
Be warned that you still need a legal Windows license if you install Win-doors, since it uses windows components and install the Microsoft dll packs which are available in the package manager!
Link: Wine-doors
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
mod_top allows you to check the current PHP processes running on the server in the format which the unix top command uses. It’s a useful tool to check out what’s running on the server, check CPU and memory utilization of the PHP scripts running on the machine.The mod_top team are providing prebuilt binaries for download on their site. Nope - I didn’t see a windows version there. Doesn’t bug me much since I moved my primary OS to Linux a few months back.
Installation of mod_top is as easy as installing a PHP extension - just add it in php.ini
mod_top is a production monitoring tool for LAMP applications with user interfaces modeled after the popular unix top. mod_top plans to support PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, mySQL, Postgres, Apache1+2 on Linux.
Link: http://www.mod-top.org/index.html
via: thinkphp
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
If you want to detect and act on XSS probes and attacks on your PHP web application without too much of coding, here’s a project which delivers. It’s called PHPIDS. It’s an IDS for your PHP application which scans your inputs (without sanitizing it) and checks for XSS attacks based on a rule set. You can get an impact analysis of the attack and act on them accordingly based on the severity.
PHPIDS adds a layer of security over your application without having to retrofit code all over the place. It’s also a useful tool to create reports on attacks without having to parse through all the server access log files.
The scanning rules can be updated by replacing an xml file, pretty much like a virus definition update 
Check their FAQ’s on how to integrate this with your application - it’s pretty simple. They’ve got a demo page where you can go test out the efficiency of the system.
PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application. The IDS neither strips, sanitizes nor filters any malicious input, it simply recognizes when an attacker tries to break your site and reacts in exactly the way you want it to.
Link: PHPIDS » Web Application Security 2.0 » Index
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Here’s a cool app from Google India Labs called Google Indic Transliteration. Here’s what Google says about the app:
Google Indic Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to the Devanāgarī characters used in Hindi. This lets you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning.
When I typed in my name, here’s the Hindi text which came out of the app : वीनू थॉमस
Link: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
“Oh God! Its irritating. Am trying to finish this form, but this image-verification is killing my time and patience. “
This is not from my mouth. This is what I have seen some user say while filling forms in few websites. The worst part is they don’t understand the characters in image. Some time its so tough that they don’t understand 50% of the characters. We all know that Captcha helps preventing the softwares from autofill.
Read more at: http://www.suggestusability.com/2007/08/few-irritating-captchas-image.html
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Looking for a way to run PHP5 code to run under a native Java server and interact with Java code?
Quercus is Caucho Technology’s 100% Java implementation of PHP 5 released under the Open Source GPL license. Quercus comes with many PHP modules and extensions like PDF, PDO, MySQL, and JSON. Quercus allows for tight integration of Java services with PHP scripts, so using PHP with JMS or Grails is a quick and painless endeavor.
Quercus presents a new mixed Java/PHP approach to web applications and services where Java and PHP tightly integrate with each other. PHP applications can choose to use Java libraries and technologies like JMS, EJB, SOA frameworks, Hibernate, and Spring. This revolutionary capability is made possible because 1) PHP code is interpreted/compiled into Java and 2) Quercus and its libraries are written entirely in Java. This architecture allows PHP applications and Java libraries to talk directly with one another at the program level. To facilitate this new Java/PHP architecture, Quercus provides and API and interface to expose Java libraries to PHP.
Link: http://quercus.caucho.com/
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