Developers Orbit

Hey so for a while now we have been using the Zend Framework (1.5) to develop out newest product or at least internal project and since I have to do some work with E-Mails I wanted to share some stuff with you.

We have built an alternative to imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist since we did not want to relay on any php modules the Zend Framework doesn’t depend on. Read more

First no I don’t mean crackers or “black-hat hackers”! I am talking about people who go thru code and finde security issues. You could compare them with the people who do the crash test with cars. They look for errors which could be fatal and get paid for it. Whats the difference between a white-hat and a black-hat? Its simple the first “kind” want to secure your websites and either tell you where the error is or want money for it. Crackers want to do bad stuff they want you to be frustrated don’t give you a clue and tend to do illigal things with your server once its been “cracked”. So if you can’t get a white-hat to hack and secure your code, then you should learn yourself ;)  I can’t advise you any english books since I mostly have tought myself but some things you should always keep in mind: “never trust the users input”, “every input which is going thru JS has to be checked” and “get all the updates you can get!”.

We’ve got Dropbox invites! Write us an e-mail and we’ll invite you! Thanks to the dropbox guys for offering this great service!

This is not exactly something to do with developing, but I just have too use my graficcard in some way since I don’t ever play games.

So there are 3 things I want to introduce.

First there is “VistaGlazz” it can be downloaded from http://www.codegazer.com/vistaglazz/ and is free of charge like all the things I am talking about in this post (except Vista).VistaGlazz is stable, if you don’t have SP1 installed and in Beta 2 for those who do have SP1 on their machines (like myself). What it does you might ask, when you maximize your window the top isn’t see thru anymore, this application changes this by patching some ,dll files. After a restart it will look like this(Image 1).

Since Firefox’s interface will still not be see thru (Image 2) there is this plug-in called Glasser it makes the interface see thru (Image 3) since the toolbar doesn’t look so hot there is another plug-in I want to introduce to you.

Its called Hide Menubar and makes the top look nice and clean(Image 4), if you do need the menubar you just press ALT and off you go!

The tutorial I found at howtoforge (http://howtoforge.com/proftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting) is a great tutorial on how to install Proftpd, but it has an error in it which almost killed me today.

After you did as it says you might not be able to connect via ftp localhost.  This could be because the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf misses a little argument before “SQLConnectInfo ftp@localhost proftpd password”.

Try to add the line “SQLBackend mysql”. And restart proftpd. If its still not working you, you might have forgotten to install libmysqlclient*-dev.

Today I hit the CAPSLOCK button again and was thinking “Why the hell is this stupid button there anyways?“.

Apperently it was used in the old days, when you did not have the ability to change fonts or font sizes for that reason you would write headlines in BOLD letters. Since I got tired of hitting CAPSLOCK (sorry for writing it big) I was searching for a  way to disable it!

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