It seems I’m not the only one who thinks the new PHP support in NetBeans is pretty cool. Roumen’s blog points to a post on the zend forums: My company bought 3 3-year licenses for Zend Studio earlier this and up until a few weeks ago, there was nothing else on the market that even came close to meeting our requirements. Then Netbeans released 6.5 with PHP support. Right out of the gate, their PHP […]
I first blogged about the PHP support in NetBeans at JavaOne this year. At that stage it was only available as an Early Access release and was a little too buggy for serious use so I always found myself having to switch back to Zend Studio. Since then the development builds have been getting better and better and now there is a NetBeans 6.5 Release Candidate available. The improvement in the last few months has […]
I’ve just been to a very interesting BOF by Ludovic Champenois at JavaOne about the new PHP support in NetBeans. The talk was in the context of the new OpenSolaris WebStack so some time was spent on this, including the unique DTrace functionality which looks neat, but I found the NetBeans demo the most interesting. NetBeans has great support for Ruby and JavaScript and now PHP is starting to get some of that goodness too. […]
This was a popular session. The queue stretched down the hall, out the front door and around the block. It covered the main vulnerabilities bad guys exploit to attack websites. It was a good session given by Joe Walker who also gave the BOF on Comet. First up was cross-site request forgery or CSRF. This is basically misusing people’s cookies. For example if a user is logged in to bank.com on one tab and then […]
I attended a session by Bill Pugh (although sometimes it seemed more like a TB ward with all the coughing and sneezing going on) about using FindBugs on large code bases. FindBugs is a static analysis tool that analyses your class files without executing the program. Some people don’t think it should be needed but smart programmers still make dumb mistakes and FindBugs can catch these. FindBugs can scale to very large code bases; Google […]
Tonight I went to a very interesting BOF given by Alex Russell and Joe Walker about Comet. Also known as ‘Reverse Ajax’, Comet is a way of implementing ‘push’ technology in the browser. Basically, it is just long-lived or delayed-response HTTP connections; so a client will open an HTTP connection and then this is kept open to push data to the client. It is needed because now that many sites use Ajax it means page […]