In case you haven't heard by now - I'm moving!

In case you haven't heard yet, I'm leaving my current job at The Chronicle and am accepting a position back in Pittsburgh.

I'm transitioning to a perl and catalyst environment, which I'm excited about. Been working my way through a catalyst book, so hopefully I'll be able to hit the ground running.

Syndicated 2008-06-25 02:05:35 from papasian.org - lifehacking

PHP texis plugin

Several months back I wrote a hackish PHP extension to natively connect and talk with Thunderstone's texis SQL daemon and now it's just sitting around unused and unfinished. What I can't figure out is whether there's anyone out there who'd actually want such a beast - we were only thinking about going that route because we had a poorly deployed search index running out of texis, and replacing vortex with PHP seemed like a good idea.

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Syndicated 2008-04-11 03:02:35 from papasian.org - lifehacking

Exploit written for recently discovered PHP-APC vuln

So I discovered a vulnerability recently (see the previous article) in APC and disclosed it, and it's sat there for a few days without feedback... so I went ahead and wrote a proof of concept exploit for it.

Syndicated 2008-03-22 19:55:16 from papasian.org - lifehacking

Vulnerability dicovered in PHP APC module

UPDATE: CVE-2008-1488 has been opened for this vulnerability

So I was noticing apache segfaulting today when I was accidentally attempting to include() a Savant3 Error object. Attached strace, and saw that it was trying to stat the string representation of Savant3 (woops!) and was getting back -1 and name too long as the errorno, but then shortly after it was segfaulting.

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Syndicated 2008-03-17 17:58:09 from papasian.org - lifehacking

sneak peek: wizDom - manipulating the DOM with the ease of jQuery from PHP

What do you get if you take the ease of jQuery, the standards compliance of XPath, and implement it in PHP? wizDom!

(This is my first post in some time - I've been busy! Since the last post, I've migrated the site from wordpress to drupal, and there are some outstanding character encoding and lack-of-attachment problems I need to attend to. Hopefully I'll get to that soon...)

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Syndicated 2008-01-20 23:37:06 from papasian.org - lifehacking