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The crew over at SitePoint have introduced a new PHP-specific resource that's looking to provide a good resource for those looking for community info and tutorials - PHPMaster.com.

PHPMaster is the latest and greatest in the SitePoint family, dedicated to bringing you the highest quality in tutorials from some of the web's best PHP Developers, as well as news and information on events in the PHP Community.

Tutorials posted so far include:

Thank you to everyone who attended my May 25th PHP|Tek talk on Test Driven Development. If you have not had a chance, please do leave feedback on joind.in.

Per the audiance request, below are the requirements, test file and source code we developed during the live tutorial.

Requirements: Hash object get and set function respond [...]

Joshua Thijssen has a new post to his blog looking at password hashing and salting - something that, really, should always be done to help protect your site's user information.

Phil Sturgeon, one of those selected to a spot in the Engineer group of the CodeIgniter Reactor community branch, has posted a few thoughts of his own about the moves EllisLab has made and the reaction from the community he's seen.

On Kavoir.com there's a new post that reminds you that hashing isn't enough anymore to protect your users and their passwords.

They offer a suggestion or two of what you can do to help lock things down a bit more.

Following some of the suggestions from the php|architect folks about getting your ideas accepted at conferences, Lorna Mitchell has posted some of her thought process behind coming up with a good conference bio.

On the NETTUTS.com site there's a new tutorial posted looking at creating a "crypter" class in PHP - a handy class to make encryption and decryption of data simpler.

Linux and Microcontroller Tip: "To add a password for grub, first you must generate an md5 password hash using the grub-md5-crypt utility:"