I recently finished reading Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett (O’Reilly). It was a good, quick read, and for me it was mostly a review of principles I had previously read on Chris’s blog. The main principles are filter input and escape output. Using separate arrays for each kind of data is a [...]
Last month at the UPHPU meeting, Wade Shearer presented on CSS best practices. He’s one of the few programmers in the group that’s a designer first, and a programmer second, so he has unique insight into web design. Here are my notes:
Keep HTML free of presentational attributes
Write clean, semantic HTML
Use HTML tables semantically–for [...]
John Taber, traffic engineer and PHP developer, has a great post comparing the various MVC frameworks available for PHP, as well as Ruby on Rails.
We really don’t care what the language is or what the plumbing looks like, just so long as we can get the program to do what we want, is super maintainable, [...]
Last night John, Jonathan, Alvaro and I got together to talk PHP over dinner and dessert. I had fun and learned a lot. Here are my notes:
Sitening is a web development consultancy with a bunch of cool online tools and what appears to be a good blog. (I haven’t read it yet.) [...]
John Taber and I are pudding (sic) on a “PHP Hacker Night” tonight. We’ll be meeting for dinner at 7:30 at Las Tarascas [map] in Provo. Dessert will be at Pudding on the Rice, which is next door. Both restaurants have free wifi, so bring your laptops. We’ll discuss PHP programming [...]