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I blogged about Content Security Policy about 2 year ago when it was still called 'Site Security Policy'.

It started as a specification and an add-on, and turned into a patch a bit later. Finally it made it into Firefox 4 beta 1.

I think CSP is the next web security revolution, so make yourself aware of how it works and the implications.

Dependency injection is becoming a more and more popular topic among developers, but for someone just starting out with it, a lot of the sites out there explaining it can be confusing.

On the Architexa blog there's a dead simple explanation of DI and what it's good for (warning: it's not a PHP example, but it translates over).

This new tutorial from NETTUTS.com (by Joseph Pecoraro) takes a more detailed look at the mod_rewrite module for Apache and shows how it can work with PHP to grab information directly from the URL.

All of you Oracle users out there might want to check out this recent post from Chris Jones, especially if you've been using the XMLType columns in your tables.

Timothy Boronczyk has posted about an interesting concept you could use in your applications - currying (made possible in PHP 5.3.x and above):