web application developers

MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities - Stefan Esser

Planet PHP  Mon, 08/18/2008 - 04:17

While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems in web applications other possible problems for SQL queries like overlong input are usually ignored although they can lead to all kinds of security problems.

This might be caused by the fact that security problems that are the result of overlong input are often buffer overflows and buffer overflows are something many web application security experts know nothing about and choose to ignore.

There are however several security problems for SQL queries that are caused by overlong input and no one talks about.



 

Prawn: The Pure Ruby PDF Generation Library

Ruby Inside  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:43

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Prawn is a new pure Ruby PDF generation library developed primarily by Gregory Brown.



 

IBM developerWorks: Integrate your PHP application with Google C...

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 07/09/2008 - 15:14

The IBM developerWorks site has posted a new tutorial (written up by Vikram Vaswani) about integrating your application with the Google Calendar web service.



 

IBM developerWorks: Use the YouTube API with PHP

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 04/16/2008 - 22:42

In this new tutorial on the IBM developerWorks website, they show you how - with a little simple HTML and PHP - to integrate functionality from the YouTube API into your site.



 

Interprocess communications in Midgard: D-Bus comes to the web -...

Planet PHP  Tue, 04/08/2008 - 08:11

In his recent blog post, Piotr Pokora showed how the the D-Bus API will work in Midgard 2. D-Bus is an interprocess communications system that is used heavily in modern Linux desktops like GNOME and KDE.