DB2 / Zend Core for IBM Discover
the power of DB2 and Zend Core for IBM. Helmut Tessarek, a developer
from IBM who actually works on PHP's native DB2 driver, gives an
insightful overview of DB2, Zend's product offering, and explains how
they can improve your data.
Building Scalable PHP Applications
Building
a scalable PHP application requires a lot more than just good coding.
In this article, Chris Hartjes takes a look at some of the major
concepts that have to be considered when building PHP systems that can
meet a surge in demand head-on.
Long Live the Code
Companies
of all sizes use PHP widely today. As the PHP codebase grows,
maintaining existing code becomes an increasingly important part of a
developer’s work. Along the way, major PHP updates like PHP 6 and
reusable components like PEAR, eZ components, and the Zend Framework
are shaping up. Author Stefan Priebsch explains how you can avoid
rewriting your code from scratch and still benefit from these new
improvements.
Frameworks: What's the Big Deal?
Prado,
Ruby on Rails, .NET, Struts, CakePHP, Zope, Cocoa, Turbine, Drupal,
J2EE, the Zend PHP Framework... it seems the development world is just
crazy about frameworks these days. What's the big deal? Why is it that
web development seems to be moving toward frameworks? Find out in this
piece by Darryl Patterson.
Test Pattern: Organizing for Change
Change
is a fact of life in software development. New columnist Jeff Moore
explains how we can apply some of the same principles we used to
organize our physical work areas toward organizing our software to
adapt to change.
Security Corner: Cross-Site Request Forgery in Action
Of
all the modern attacks aimed at the visitor of a website, cross-site
request forgery (CSRF) is one of the most interesting, since it allows
exploitation without the actual hacking of the website. Security expert
Ilia Alshanetsky explains how CSRF uses a seemingly benign web feature
to trick and confuse the user into performing the tasks desired by the
hacker.
