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Catching a code injection hacker in the act

Several days ago, I installed the Redirection plugin from Urban Giraffe. It’s truly awesome, in more ways than one. John Godley, you are an amazing programmer! As I re-arranged the categories on my blog, I tracked the 404 errors through the plugin. On Saturday morning, I noticed the following bit of information in my log:

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Book giveaway: Object-Oriented PHP, by Peter Lavin

Remember my last book giveaway? I meant to get around to this second one a little sooner, but life intervened. This time, I’m giving away “Object-Oriented PHP“, by Peter Lavin. I reviewed this book back on August 30, 2006. It’s been sitting in my library since then. It’s still relevant, but more importantly, it’s still [...]

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Object-Oriented PHP: Concepts, Techniques, and Code by Peter Lavin

Can a single book get web designers to start writing better, reusable PHP code? Peter Lavin makes a go of it in Object Oriented PHP, and it comes out pretty darn well.
The gist of the book is this: would you rather write code that does the same sort of stuff over, and over, and over, [...]

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