One of the biggest challenges you face when building hosted applications is how to prevent brute force or guessed password authentications. Especially given the number of warez type applications that are out there that allow unsavory users to do just that. Well, I found a resource on Xlinesoft’s website that demonstrates how to do block […]
Critch on VMware, Apache, PHP/MySQL
I am happy (bordering on giddy) that our server engineer / administrator Matt Critcher is now blogging, dude is probably one of the sharpest guys I have ever met and he is an all around cool guy to hang with too, but beware of the fancy cheese he brings to dinner parties because you could […]
Central Arkansas Refresh Meeting
Just a heads up, the Central Arkansas Refresh Group is going to have our second meeting this next week (Tuesday, March 31) at the Starbucks located at 9401 N. Rodney Parham Rd. in Little Rock. The start time is 6:00pm and we expect the meetup to last about 2 hours but with all of the […]
Pulling URL from _table_search.php
If you are using PHPR (phprunner) as your IDE to develop your PHP applications in here’s a trick that you are likely going to appreciate at some point in your coding career. If you utilize the advanced search feature in your applications (not the standard inline search, but the advanced search) and you would like […]
SQL Truncate & mt_rand()
For anyone that may have wondered why the upgrade to 2.6.2 was so important, here’s a pretty good explanation I found on WordPress Developers Blog tonight. It has to do with a SQL column truncation issue that could basically alter users login credentials, etc. Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column […]
Adding Form to DB Record in PHPR
I recently had a pretty intensive PHPR project where I had to create a page for a client that called in records from their database as well as displaying a form that visitors could us to contact the “name” and “email” from that particular record. In theory this isn’t a complicated thing to get your […]