At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don't remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.

The session was a blast (and well-received), so much so that Danese and I proposed the session for last year's OSCON. We didn't make the cut, but I still tried again for this year's EuroOSCON and, this time, the session was accepted.

At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don't remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.

The session was a blast (and well-received), so much so that Danese and I proposed the session for last year's OSCON. We didn't make the cut, but I still tried again for this year's EuroOSCON and, this time, the session was accepted.

I will be speaking at the LinuxTAG conference later this week. The topic of my talk is Content Management with WebDAV and OpenOffice.org. The talk is on friday at 16:00.

Scott Mattocks submitted a link to his most current edition of the latest and greatest from the world of PHP-GTK - Issue #11.

Included in this edition are mentions of:

• patches applied this week (GtkTreeModel::iter_nth_child, GtkTreeModel::iter_parent, GtkTreeModel::get, GtkWidget::is_visible)
• a fix for a segault dealing with the drag-n-drop functionality
• the release of a new Glade tutorial
• a question about creating your own widgets to extend PHP-GTK's current set
• a new package release by Christian on the Gnope.org site for a drag-n-drop development environment.

You can get the complete details on each of these stories from this edition of the latest from the world of PHP-GTK.

Sephiroth.it has a quick post pointing out this helpful article on the SecurityFocus site looking at five common web application vulnerabilities.

The list they share contains all of the usual suspects:

• remote code execution
• SQL injection
• format string vulnerabilities (unfiltered user input)
• cross-site scripting (XSS)
• username enumeration

For each, they give a definition of what it is and how it's done, a rating on how critical it is, some of the previously vulnerable products, some code examples of how it might work, and some countermeasures/reference material for more information.

Building web aplications that split out the responsibilities correctly is becoming more and more important. Developers are creating more complex applications, and cluttering up the presentation with the logic of the code can only make things more of a nightmare down the road. Thankfully, there are articles like this one from DevShed to help you template your site correctly.

You'll need a bit of experience with templating your site before you get started, as they begin with a basic structure of the template processor before anything. They demonstrate the code to create the "TemplateProcessor" class and defining the "processTemplate" method inside it. By the end of this first part in the series, they've created a very simple templating class that could be used as is for base-level projects. Stay tuned for more, though, if you're hungry for more features.

eZ publish 3.8.0 is released. This is a main update for eZ publish 3.x series. It contains a lot of bug-fixes, enhancements and a set of new functionality.
New major features include: multi-language support in the content model, content object history (content diff), clustering support,
external package support for setup wizard, prices in multiple currencies, extendible shipping system, extendible VAT system,
extendible Single Sign On (SSO) system, SSL zones.

For more information see http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_8 and http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/3_8
For complete changelog : http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/changelogs/ez_publish_3_8/changelog_3_6_x_3_7_x_to_3_8_0

eZ publish 3.8.0 is released. This is a main update for eZ publish 3.x series. The release includes bug-fixes, feature enhancements and a set of new functionality.

PHPit.net has posted their latest tutorial today providing an introduction to the powerful Winbinder library for PHP for those unfamiliar with it.

True to the theme of the article, they introduce the Winbinder library - what it is, how it works, and links to grab the latest copy. Their first simple example is a "Hello World" window created with about 7 lines of code. They explain the parts of this code before moving on, up to an example that uses the event handler functionality to catch a button being clicked.