Static vs Non-static methods in PHP: what is faster?

Posted by Stanislav Furman on May 4, 2014
What is faster? Comparison of static and non-static class methods in PHP.

Apple has iWatch already in production, report says

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 30, 2014
Sources claim that Apple has already start production on iWatch

Regular expressions? What's that?

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 29, 2014
A funny example of some silly PHP code.

IE users risk having their computers hacked and taken over

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 28, 2014

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There is a major security whole affecting several versions of Internet Explorer has been discovered recently. 

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer versions from IE6 to IE11 are all vulnerable to a glitch that could be used by hackers to get remote access to a victim’s PC.

"On completion of this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to protect our customers, which may include providing a solution through our monthly security update release process, or an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs." , - Microsoft stated in their official press release.

According to W3Schools web browser usage stats this security issue may affect on 1 from 10 Internet users.


Unix shell commands to detect a DDoS attack and its source

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 25, 2014
5 Unix shell commands to check if your server is under DDoS attack and its source

This password is already in use. Old school security fail.

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 23, 2014

Believe you or not but such fails have been seen! :)

Hopefully, these days you won't see such a message anywhere. LOL

 


RIP Nokia? Microsoft renames Nokia to Microsoft Mobile

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 21, 2014
Bye-bye, Nokia! Hello, Microsoft Mobile! The end of Nokia?

What Is the Heartbleed Encryption Bug?

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 11, 2014

Redis: How to delete keys matching a pattern

Posted by Stanislav Furman on April 10, 2014

Sometimes you might want to purge a set of similar Redis keys in one shot. So far, standard Redis "DEL" command does not allow to remove keys using patterns. However, there is a trick to do this action. Execute the following command in bash:


redis-cli -h [host] -p [port] KEYS "prefix:*" | xargs redis-cli DEL

Seems clear? Wait a minute! What if you use multiple databases (keyspaces) and need to remove keys from a database different from default (0) one? No problem there! Here is the solution:

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Backward version compatibility in PHP web application

Posted by Stanislav Furman on February 17, 2014
How to handle backward PHP version compatibility in your web application