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ZeroDayScan in an online scanner which can scan your site for the following issues: Detects Cross Site Scripting attacks (XSS) Detects Hidden Directories and Backup Files Looks for Known Security Vulnerabilities Searches for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Automatically detects zero day bugs Performs Website Fingerprinting Once the service finishes scanning your site for issues and vulnerabilities, [...]
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Planning on starting a project with REST webservices? You’ve gotta check out this new framework called FRAPI. This API framework built in PHP eases development of REST webservices, by allowing you to add actions, responses and even create users and assign API keys to them for accessing the services you create. Here’s a video showing [...]
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Most of us just write applications to be deployed on a webserver without thinking about what to do when the server becomes overloaded. What happens in most cases is that the application would go trying to run itself on every request, and on a heavily loaded system, it just goes on the aggravate the problem, [...]
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Just a quick heads up in case you missed out on the announcement. The Bangalore PHP Meetup’s happening this month on the 24th. For a change, I’m not involved much in the organization of this event. Indus Khaithan took care of the venue arragements and Harsha MV’s taken up co-ordinating with the potential speakers and [...]
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Google has released a Web Application Security Scanner over at Google Code. This can be used to scan you site for possible security issues which might be lurking around. Skipfish prepares an interactive site-map for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. This scanner is easy to setup on an [...]
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Here are some webinars from Zend which you may find interesting: Webinar – PHP Development Best Practices: The Untold Story of Geekville January 19, 2010 – 9:00 am PST – your computer via webex Have you ever wondered how you could advance your PHP development? Have you considered using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), an [...]
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Here’s a free PHP Ebook from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series. More about this book: In this book, PHP 5′s co-creator and two leading PHP developers show you how to make the most of PHP 5′s industrial-strength enhancements in any project—no matter how large or complex. Their unique insights and realistic examples illuminate PHP 5′s [...]
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If you’re new to testing in PHP, and were wondering how to create and run automated tests, here’s an ebook which will help you get the basics right. Practical PHP Testing is an ebook which is a compilation of articles from Giorgio Sironi’s blog on Practical PHP testing. This book takes you though the basics [...]
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XHProf is a heriarcical profiler for PHP originally developed by Facebook and then opensourced. The raw data collection component is implemented in C (as a PHP extension). The reporting/UI layer is all in PHP. It is capable of reporting function-level inclusive and exclusive wall times, memory usage, CPU times and number of calls for each [...]
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Image via Wikipedia When I talk to developers about security in web development, I usually get the answer that the security is taken care by the systems team by securing the server and by using the https protocol. In reality that is just the tip of the iceberg on security. There’s much more you should [...]
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