Archive for October 31st, 2007
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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
browsing the moodle docs again:
isstudent etc is deprecated, check roles is now done with the function hascapability().
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