Interview with Wez Furlong
Wez Furlong is Chief Architect at OmniTI, Inc., and a PHP core developer responsible for the streams abstraction layer, the PDO extension, and the SQLite extension among others. We caught up with him at the php|works conference where he presented a seminar on PHP Data Objects (PDO).
php|works Toronto Conference Sept 12 - 15 2006
Rasmus Lerdorf's keynote address at the php|works conference in Toronto opened in typical iconoclastic style: "The web is broken. You can all go home now." (See http://talks.php.net/show/torkey06/1 for a complete overview.) This is something of an overstatement but a serious reference to security flaws in Internet Explorer, Apache and Flash. Rasmus went on to ...
Book Review: Programming PHP 2/e
It may be a well known secret that the animals depicted on the cover of O'Reilly books have some bearing on the contents -- but indulge me -- I've only just recognized the fact. The camel on the front of Larry Wall's Perl book should perhaps have given the game away long ago. Ever thought about the duck-billed platypus on "Web Database Applications"? Well the authors are Australian. For a book on security ("Essential PHP Security") what better animal than a monitor lizard? So why a cuckoo for "Programming PHP"?
LinuxWorld Toronto, April 24-26, 2006
In the server market these days Linux is pretty mainstream, so it was no surprise to see a number of major corporations, including HP, IBM, and Samsung, represented at LinuxWorld. However, the show floor was dominated by Novell. They were positioned front and center with an exceptionally well-staffed booth, and at the epicenter of it all was SUSE Linux.
Popular PHP is Hot and It's Canadian
Quick -- name a Canadian-made computer-programming language. Time's up. If you answered "Java," that's true enough -- its originator, University of Calgary graduate James Gosling, created the language for Sun Microsystems Inc. But the top prize goes to those who answered "PHP."
