Archive for October 31st, 2007

UnionFS

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Interesting concept {en:UnionFS} : It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system. (wikipedia quote). Some links: UnionFS Aufs (Another Union FS; UnionFS, rebuilt from scratch) Picked it up from the presentation of Dan Poltawski at the Moodle Moot 2007 in ...

PHP security

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Did some browsing on php security. PHP programming security: Top 7 php security blunders PHP manual security section PHP security blog Linux security (with HOWTOs) Lots of issues apply to general web programming. The main message is: never trust user input. Always check everything a user is posting in your webapp. Cool article about breaking firewalls ...

Moodle extension

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

browsing the moodle docs again: isstudent etc is deprecated, check roles is now done with the function hascapability().