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Open Designs is a new portal for free Open Source web design templates. It just opened and not very active, currently housing 195 different website templates. The designs are very versatile and most are very beautiful and professional.
From the website: “The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing
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Sometimes when designing an HTML form, you need to have the focus on a specific item in your form, which is not necessarily the first item in the form. This can be achieved very easily. You cannot do this with HTML. However, you can include a tiny JavaScript after the form that sets the focus
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Dan Saffer writes about the importance of documentation to the development process. A lot of time
I’ve seen good and wholesome designs go to waste simply because they were never documented properly and when it came down to execution, the developers where left cold on their own. When puzzling several big pieces together trusting
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PHP 5.1.3 was released only a few days ago and now we have PHP 5.1.4 release.
Whats leading to this release? A critical bug with $_POST array handling as well as the FastCGI sapi have been discovered in PHP 5.1.3.
A new PHP release 5.1.4 is now available to address these issues. All users who installed
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PHP 5.1.3 has been released, not many additions, but many important bug fixes.
This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3
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The PHP 5.1.2 release combines small feature enhancements with a fair number of bug fixes and addresses three security issues. All PHP 5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.2 include: HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the header() function. Fixed format
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PHP 4.4.1 is now available for download. This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array.
Available to download here.

All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Here is a full list
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It is expected that some GreaseMonkey scripts might interfere with JavaScript or other DHTML elements on websites. In this case web site owners will want to disable GreaseMonkey. Dean Edwards has a little writeup and code on that.

As I mentioned before there are many vulnerable web systems out there simply because developers are not aware of the most basic precautions when developing in this environment. One basic but critical element is the handling of inputs.
Here are some basic but critical rules for handling input in PHP

When receiving a value from a
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McAfee released SiteDigger 2.0, a free tool aimed at finding vulnerabilities in websites. It looks for information about a Web site’s security by sending specific queries to Google’s Web database. Such searches can turn up easily exploitable flaws and sensitive information, including credit card numbers and user account information. The free service should help Webmasters
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If you run your blog or web site on a hosted server, you are probably limited to a certain amount of bandwidth per month. An easy way to lose all of your bandwidth is if someone decides to hotlink an image directly from you instead of downloading it to their own site. This has been
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I’m always amazed at how unaware new web developers are to security. They develop their application/website as if every field, array or object will always get exactly the type of value it should, without any regard to what might happen if they will not. The problem is, that in most cases the well-known methods (like
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To anyone familiar with web development it might sound improbable, but there is a way to encrypt your web page source. Ok, so it’s not a very smart or strong encryption, on the contrary, it’s very simple and easy to decode, but if you want to fool the random, non-savvy, amateur code leecher it might
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You can find here a nice JavaScript Markdown. It’s still only a partial implementation and may only work right in Mozilla browsers.
If your scratching your head about Markdown, here’s an explanation.

I have no idea why any serious PHP developer will use this but here is a web based PHP Class Builder. If you’re lazy enough, you’ll find use for it.