Monthly Archives: December 2006

Congratulations Andrei

By Patrick Reilly | Published: December 22, 2006
Congratulations, to Andrei and the rest of the PHP team for reaching the milestone of converting 50% of the 3084 functions that are bundled with PHP 6 to now support Unicode.
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Mash Pit OpenID: PDX

By Patrick Reilly | Published: December 19, 2006
I have had quite a few people and companies here in the Portland-area ask about OpenID and how they can implement it on their site. The people I talked with always wanted to just do it right then and there. In the spirit of just-getting-it-done, I’d like to announce the first (of what I hope [...]
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PHP Security Expert Resigns

By Patrick Reilly | Published: December 14, 2006
“PHP security holes have a name — quite often it was Stefan Esser who found and reported them. Now Esser has quit the PHP security team. He feels that his attempt to make PHP safer “from the inside” is futile. Basic security issues are not addressed sufficiently by the developers. Zeev Suraski, Zend’s CTO of [...]
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