In a recent post to his blog Rafael Dohms reminds readers to not forget about the security of their applications because it can be “a huge mistake which can take a turn for the worse.
PHP Security: Are you paying attention?
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Simple Cloud API for PHP
Zend just announced Simple Cloud API for PHP. This API aims to be an Abstraction Layer between PHP and a number of Cloud services (Azure, Amazon, Nirvanix, Rackspace). The current contributors to this project include Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid.
Using .net assemblies inside SQL Server: Quick start guide
Are you are an experienced .net programmer and you are too lazy to learn TSQL stored procedures, triggers or functions? Yes? Then read on this quick start guide on using .net assemblies inside SQL Server using SQLCLR.
Android ‘Donut’ SDK released: What’s new inside
Google’s Android development team has made the latest Android SDK available, providing a complete view of all the new features that “Donut” (Android 1.6) will provide.
While most of the features included in this incremental update are no secret, this is the first time they have been presented to the public in a single package.
Building a Zend Modular CMS Tutorial
A series of blog posts have been created covering the development of an extendable, modular CMS system, currently up to part 7 with ACL, Database, Navigation, Config, Bootstrapping, and Translate, already built in. This is a good way to start using/understanding the Zend Framework.
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Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
“WebGL is basically an initiative to bring 3D graphics into web browsers natively, without having to download any plugins. This is achieved by adding a few things to HTML5, namely, defining a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 and letting you draw things into a 3D context of the canvas element.”
Security Developer Starter Kit
The Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit offers 14 modules of content, labs, and training to help you establish a standardized approach to rolling out security development policies and industry best practices into your organization.
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Check if a service is installed with ServiceController using LINQ
If you want to check if a specific NT Service is installed you will need to use the ServiceController class (from System.ServiceProcess). The first problem you will encounter is that the ServiceController has no static method, that would return a Boolean, specifying if the service is installed or not (e.g. ServiceController.IsInstalled(‘MyService’);) – so, to solve this you need to fetch the list of all installed services, using the static method ServiceController.GetServices(), which returns an array of ServiceController[], and then iterate thru all the elements to see if “MyService” is on that list. Now, this is not a problem, is just too much code for such a simple task. If you use LINQ things are simple: basically you will iterate thru the list, but in a much focused and simple way.
RTM versions of Visual Studio 2008 and .net Framework 3.5
The final versions of Visual Studio 2008 and .net Framework 3.5 are available. MSDN subscribers can download VS2008 the full versions from the MSDN subscription site. Trial versions of VS2008 Team Suite and VS2008 Team Foundation Server are also available for download, VS2008 Professional will be available later.
Native applications for the iPhone, SDK next February
As announced this week, Apple will release a new SDK to develop native applications for the iPhone. This is a somewhat unexpected turn, as Apple announced in the past that no native applications SDK would be released, leaving only room for applications developed using Dashboard-widgets-like methods (Web 2.0 applications, as stated in a previous press release).