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Davey Shafik's Blog: The Blowfish Debacle

PHPDeveloper.org  Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:02

Davey Shafik has a recent post to his blog about what he calls "The Blowfish Debacle" - the issues that came up with the PHP 5.3.7 release to upgrade the crypt_blowfish version that resulted in a larger error being introduced.


 

My Book is Published: PHP Master - Lorna Mitchell

Planet PHP  Mon, 10/24/2011 - 03:04

PHP Master Cover ShotI am truly delighted to announce that "my" book is published.

Technically it's really "our" book since I had the pleasure of co-authoring with friends and PHP rockstars Davey Shafik and Matt Turland.


 

PHP Master Published by SitePoint - Matthew Turland

Planet PHP  Fri, 10/21/2011 - 07:46

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve had a second book published: “PHP Master: Writing Cutting-Edge Code.” This time, I had the honor and pleasure of co-authoring the content with my good friends and peers in the PHP community Lorna Jane Mitchell and Davey Shafik and working with the excellent team at


 

Davey Shafik's Blog: Netbeans for PHP: Continues to Impress

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13:02

In a new post to his blog Davey Shafik goes on a bit more about NetBeans which is quickly becoming his favorite IDE in the series of ones he's tried (including Zend's offering, Eclipse with PDT and his most recent choice NetBeans).


 

Hasin Hayder's Blog: RackSpace Cloud Server Client Library for P...

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 10/13/2009 - 09:47

Hasin Hayber has posted about a new library he and his group have created to interface directly with the RackSpace Cloud Server API - phprackcloud.


 

Davey Shafik's Blog: Fixing ZDE 5.5 on Snow Leopard (Crashing & ...

PHPDeveloper.org  Mon, 08/31/2009 - 07:40

If you're a Zend Studio IDE user and are having trouble on the latest release of Apple's operating system (Snow Leopard), Davey Shafik might be able to help.

In these two posts he walks you through how you can fix a crashing issue and a problem that comes up when selecting text.

For the first problem:


 

Davey Shafik's Blog: ext/dom and libxml2 charset and entities be...

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:23

Davey Shafik points out a second option for the saveXML function of the DOM functionality in PHP - an option to restrict the use of "empty tags".


 

Davey Shafik's Blog: Karma-Based Mailing Lists (or: how to autom...

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 12:30

In this new post to his blog Davey Shafik looks at a problem plaguing several mailing lists out there (including some of the PHP ones) - that they're a "free for all".

What's his solution to help it? Karma.


 

Davey Shafik's Blog: Making the case for PHP

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 06/09/2009 - 08:32

In a recent post to his blog Davey Shafik proposes that you take a look from another angle when considering what to use for a project (PHP, .NET, Java, etc) - think people, not so much technology.