Message queues are really wonderful things, I'm not going to get into the many, many uses for them, but over the past year or so I've been experimenting with a fairly simple implementation which allows PHP to perform RPC requests over one....
moreSo you're nearing the end of a project release schedule and decide to contract out the security services of a website auditing company specialising. You might call it release engineering, or project finalisation......
moreSince converting to PDO for almost all the database interaction I do I've not really had any bad experiences, sure I got a few crashes here and there early on, but since then it's been pretty good....
moreIn response to Debians security efforts to stop session stealing on shared-hosting servers, and after a few requests from concerned sysadmins, I've developed an application to clean the PHP session directory as an alternative to the cron job route....
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