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è finalmente stato rilasciata la versione stabile di mediawiki 1.4, il wiki che sta alla base di wikipedia. Per ora nessuna release notes ufficiale…

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Alex King stanco di dover linkare tutte le nuove template per wordpress nel suo blog ha creato il wordpress theme browser. Si tratta essenzialmente di un piccolo script che permette di passare da una template ad un’altra visualizzandone l’anteprima e permettendone il download.

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se avete qualche problema con i vostri feed rss (ad esempio quando usate lettere accentate o caratteri particolari nei vostri post) il plugin entity2ncr potrebbe esservi utile.

Entity2NCR (NCR = Numeric Character Reference) converts various HTML character entities (» & © and so on) to their numeric equivalents (» & © etc.). Many WordPress users are running afoul of character entities appearing in their comment RSS feeds, which many RSS/syndication readers fail on (also causes Firefox to get a mite testy). This should fix the problem.

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dopo l’editor wysiwyg per wp, che mi ha abbastanza deluso per la limitatezza [non è possibile alterare dei tag con attributi di stile o altro], è stato rilasciato un plugin che permette di fare l’online editing direttamente dalla template (senza cioè loggarsi nel pannello di controllo). Il plugin in questione si chiama touched ed a primo acchito sembra ben fatto, inoltre l’autore ha deciso di sfruttare il più possibile le api di wp rendendolo molto semplice da installare e personalizzare.

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è uscito il numero di marzo! meglio tardi che mai…

Crunching Data with PHP
There are various file formats to archive, pack, zip or crunch data. PHP supports many of them, in different ways: using external PHP scripts, PEAR packages or PHP extensions. In this article, author Christian Wenz explores the world of compression mechanisms using all that PHP has to offer!

Strengthening the Authentication Process
A login screen–what could be simpler? Well, if you want a safe login screen and can’t afford the luxury of running an HTTPS connection, things are not so simple after all. Join author Graeme Foster as he explains several ways in which you can make the gateway to your secure applications safer with nothing more than PHP, JavaScript and a whole lot of programming smarts.

An XML approach to Templating using PHPTAL
A lot has been done—and said—about template systems in PHP, but, still, no real conclusion has been reached. Author José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández Silva examines PHPTAL, a PHP implementation of TAL, the Template Attribute Language that is very well know among Zope programmers. Unlike many other templating systems that use custom syntax, TAL is entirely based on XML, making it easier to understand for developers and designers alike.

Turning a Class Into an Application With PHP-GTK
Tired of having to write a new script for every PEAR package he released, Scott Mattocks decided to wrap the PEAR_PackageFileManager class in a GUI to make generating package files a snap. This article details the process that he went through to create his application and highlights how you can use PHP-GTK to do the same with your classes.

Priming PHP for the Enterprise
“PHP in the Enterprise” is beginning to sound like “the paperless office.” Luckily, there’s a lot less of a vapourware aura around the former than around the latter, as this interview with Cornelius Willis, IdeaLabs’ Vice-president of Sales and Marketing, shows.

Test Pattern: The Three Inch High Design Tool
Want a design tool created by a world class developer? Want one that does not just encourage good design, but helps teach it? Want one that encourages collabo-rative design in the face of the disparate personalities involved? Don’t know UML? Not much money? Don’t worry. “Class Responsibility Collaboration” cards, or CRC cards for short, are one of the cheapest development tools you can buy. Superficially, they are nothing more than a pack of index cards.

Security Corner: Magic Quotes
This month’s Security Corner topic is magic quotes, the collective term for the behaviour of the magic_quotes_gpc, magic_quotes_sybase, and magic_quotes_runtime configuration directives. Chris’ approach this month is a bit different, because instead of highlighting a best practice or describing a security safeguard, he wants to warn you against relying on insufficient protections. Betting all your security money on magic quotes is more than just a red herring—it is actually a very poor practice, and this month’s Security Corner will explain why.

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