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10 Principles of the PHP Masters

lacisoft — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:22:10 +0000

A great post published by Internet Resources explains 10 principles of some of the most popular PHP programmers.

In short here are the 1o principles of the PHP Masters and the name of the programmer bolded. I will only list them. For more details head over to the original post.

Use PHP Only When You Need it – Rasmus Lerdorf
Use Many Tables With PHP and MYSQL for Scalability – Matt Mullenweg
Never, ever trust your users – Dave Child
Invest in PHP Caching – Ben Balbo
Speed up PHP Development with an IDE, Templates and Snippets – Chad Kieffer
Make Better Use of PHP’s Filter Functions – Joey Sochacki
Use a PHP Framework – Josh Sharp
Don’t use a PHP Framework – Rasmus Lerdorf
Use Batch Processing – Jack D. Herrington
Turn on Error Reporting Immediately – David Cummings

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5 articles you must read about WordPress

lacisoft — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:35:10 +0000

Working and publishing with WordPress is easy. But sometimes users can waste lots of times figuring out some more advanced tricks or features. Believe me i’ve been there myself. So i compiled a list of articles, tutorials and howtos that will certainly help you alot when dealing with WordPress.

1) WordPress as CMS tutorial - http://robertbasic.com/blog/wordpress-as-cms-tutorial/

This tutorial explains how to turn your WordPress installation into a powerful CMS, using only basic PHP and HTML skills.

2) Top 50 WordPress Tutorials - http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/top-50-wordpress-tutorials/

This is a collection of tutorials that cover everything from Basics to some more advanced tricks, including Themes, Plugins, Backend

3) 1o Useful RSS Tricks and Hacks for WordPress - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/02/10-useful-rss-hacks-for-wordpress/

RSS is a must for every blog. This tutorial explains how to control your RSS feed down to the last byte of information

4) Best WordPress plugin for related posts - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-related-posts/

Matt Cutts writes about probably the best related posts plugin for WordPress. The plugin is called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and it is very easy to install and configure.

5) 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for Max Performance - http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/13-great-wordpress-speed-tips-tricks-for-max-performance.html

Getting your WordPress up and running is easy. But what are you doing when your site is experiencing high traffic ?

I hope these articles will help you to get the most out of your WordPress installation.

Tips to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

lacisoft — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:25:06 +0000

In the last year the majority of security breaches in websites are related to XSS attacks. So it is very important to build websites keeping in mind a few rules to avoid beeing hacked. Also always handle data as beeing untrusted and consider it harmful. Only after careful sanitization you should start to begin trusting it.

The XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet has a number of rules in order to prevent XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks. Among other things you should:

Hackers will find new ways to break websites so there are no guarantees, but obeying these rules will significantly decrease the chances of beeing hacked.

Tips for improving your PHP programming skills

lacisoft — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:44 +0000

Smashing Magazine published an article with 10 tips to improve your PHP programming skills. They claim to be advanced tips but i tend to disagree. Every PHP programmer with 1-2 years of experience, somewhere around mid-level should know these things. But nevertheless the article is worth reading, if you did not know those things you may remember them again.