schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa === PHP === - Jesus loves me... and VIM too! ;) Found via my referrer stats: http://www.jesus.com.au/html/page/vim. - A clash of asociality Open sources are great things, annoying things too. For example, take the PEAR project. There is a huge croud of developers in the project (more than 800 registered users on PEARWeb, more than 200 maintainers), which every day try to improve the project, try to work together and try to learn from what they code and from the code they read. They feel the spirit of open source, they invest much time and train their hard skills in coding and their soft skills in the cooperation with a team. - Software patent directive REJECTED A great victory in a huge war. Thanks to all you anti-sorftware-patent-activists! - PEAR::XML_RPC - Security vulnerability! As already mentioned, a huge bunch of PHP based applications have a security issue in their XML-RPC implementations. This also applied to PEAR::XML_RPC. If you are using this package, it's more than recommended to upgrade to the new version 1.3.1, which fixes the named issue. If you have your own or are using another ones XML-RPC implementation, please check immediatly if the issue exists there, too! There are several example exploits around the web, so take this issue seriously! - Linuxtag roundup -2- This is a sequel to my series "Linuxtag roundup". - Linuxtag roundup -1- This article shall become a series on Linuxtag 2005. I'll try to sum up the most interesting parts of it and possible I miss out important facts. But please forgive me, but the flood of information was in some cases to much. Sorry for that, if you feel missing in the list of interesting contacts/projects/ideas/..., please leave a comment at one of the blog entries! - Services_Trackback - Thoughts on trackback spam A few weeks ago I announced the release of Services_Trackback 0.5.0, which has a new module system for integrating spam protections into your trackback mechanisms. While the most easy filter (the bad word list) worked quite well for the first time frame, but as usual it did not take long for the spammers to work around that with using entitie encoding. Of course to get around that from the anti spam point of view is very simple, too, with simply reconverting that stuff before running the bad word check. But that's not really the sense, because the spam fraction will not need long to come around this, too. - Linuxtag slides online I recently uploaded my slides from my presentation on Linuxtag 2005 yesterday. The talk was named "News from PEAR" and gives an overview on how PEAR evolved in the last couple of month. Beside the talk slides I also included the written 10 pages elaboration which is required for applying for a Linuxtag talk and some more examples I was not able to show during the talk. - PEAR & me @ Linuxtag As some other community collegues already announced 1 2 3: Linuxtag X will start on upcoming Wednesday. - PEAR::Image_3D proposed I recently proposed PEAR::Image_3D in PEPr (the PEAR Proposal system).