Encoding Numbers as Base 36
A few days ago I went and registered the domain dashto.cc and created a really quick-n-dirty URL shortening site.
PHP Certification
I get asked about this a lot. Why did I take the PHP Certification exam? What does it do for me? Was it hard?
MVC With The Zend Framework
I’ve been using the Zend Framework a lot lately and have come to really appreciate it. Today I want to write about ZF and how to use the MVC components. This post will be all about ZF itself, how the MVC components work, and getting a simple example up and going. I will write another [...]
Basic Regular Expressions
Today I want to talk about regular expressions (usually referred to as regex or regexp). No matter what application you are creating, chances are you will need to parse text in some way. It might be for validating user input or for extracting information from a string of data in some arbitrary format. I have [...]
Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF)
Today I want to cover a kind of security issue that is not addressed very often. Just about any book or article aimed at developers has some warning about XSS and SQL injection. Those two attacks are arguably two of the most harmful, but there are certainly other things to be weary of. In this [...]
Pagination
Pagination refers to splitting up a large result set into multiple pages. Probably the most recognized use of pagination is that displayed by Google when you perform a search. As long as there have been applications, there has been a need to paginate. Everything from long documents to search results, it’s something almost every app [...]
Password Security
Almost every website has some sort of members-only area. Anything from a profile system to something as simple as email subscriptions for articles. What every members area has in common is some way for a user to authenticate themselves. Most likely, this is through a username and a password. What I’m going to talk about [...]
