jonathan street

Jonathan Street has posted a review of a book from Quentin Zervaas - "Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP".

On his blog, Jonathan Street has posted some "random thoughts" on generating random (or not so random) strings in PHP.

I first started to think about random strings when going through the process of registering an application for Windows Delegated Authentication service.

As part of the application you are asked to provide a secret key. You want this to be difficult to guess so a random string is going to be best.

Humans are astoundingly bad at being random and I just slapped the keyboard a few times until I felt I had the required 16 characters.

Writing some code to produce a fairly random string is incredibly easy.

I've easily done it a dozen times or more.

I've spoken previously about Windows Live Contacts but never really did much with it.

I didn't have an immediate use for it and I was growing increasingly apathetic about the entire area of contact grabbers / importers.

It was a shame really as it was a really exciting project with Microsoft leading the way in the area. It's been only recently that Google and Yahoo have caught up and released their own APIs for accessing their users data.

Jonathan Street has posted a review of APress Publishing's "Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More" (by Kevin McArthur):

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

• PHP 10.0 Blog: Kill resources
• Alison Holloway's Blog: PHP 5.2.2 Setup on Windows
• Nick Halstead's Blog: Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 1
• CorePHP Blog: A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP
• Jonathan Street's Blog: MSN contact grab scr

Following my initial discussion on using geo-targeting to predict timezones I've finally found time to play around with some of these ideas.

The idea

Simplify the user experience by predicting the timezone someone is in and auto-populating a registration form accordingly.

The solution

This blog has been quiet for a little over a month now as 'real world' events have consumed all my spare time. Overall it has been a month well spent.

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On his blog today, Johnathan Street poses a question - is PHP "good enough" to be used in the scientific community?