exception class

It's been a dies horribilis for MRI Ruby today with two new security vulnerabilities forcing the release of 3 new recommended production versions of the de facto official Ruby interpreter.

The first, a vulnerability in FileUtils.remove_entry_secure affects both 1.8 and 1.9 branches, while the second, a $SAFE mode vulnerability, affects only 1.8.

Note: I have tested this in PHPUnit 3.4.1 and haven't tried it out in 3.5.
Anyone who has worked with PHPUnit has most likely worked with expected

Brandon Savage continues his introductory series on exception handling in PHP with this new post to his blog.

This time the focus is on methods for nesting exceptions.

Brandon Savage has posted the next part of his series looking at exceptions in PHP.

This new article shows how to create a custom exception layer on top of the built-in handling.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Hurricane Software: PHP vs Python: Analysis
• Developer.com: Sending Email with PHP
• FlexandAir.com: CRUDdy Buddy - Zend_Amf Code Generator
• DevShed: Building a Modular Exception Class in PHP 5
• Johannes Schluter's Blog: Direct MySQL Stream Access

DevShed has posted the second-to-last part of their tutorial series about creating a Twitter "badge" for your site with the custom icon and latest tweet pulled from the site. This new part looks at handling exceptions thrown by their class.