5Nov/110
PHPCon PL 2011 – Safety of web applications (Przemysław Pawliczuk)
What should you keep in your mind to make your web app more secure?
- Check file content when you receive it through $_FILES. Check if it contains "<?php".
- Remember that image EXIF can be dangerous.
- Salt passwords.
- Do not authenticate on the client side.
- Write down basic procedures what would you do if your application has been hacked.
- Let people in your company use the app for the first time to play and try to break it.
- Separate development from production machines on every aspect.
4Nov/110
PHPCon PL 2011 – how to increase productivity of PHP programmer (Adam Puza)
You can see whole presentation here (in polish). Adam Puza prepared also a page related to that where you can find links to useful tools etc.
So how can we increase our productivity?
- Use mouse as rare as possible. Try to do everything just with keyboard.
- Use clipboard manager, eg. ClipX
- Keep you passwords in one place, eg. Keypass
- Use shortcut keys, eg. with AutoHotkey
- Learn IDE shortcut keys. Search files using keyboard, not mouse.
- Use virtual machines when you have to set up specialized environment to work with some project.
What's the best way to learn shortcut keys?
- Do something using mouse.
- Next check how can it be done with just a keyboard.
- Revert action and do it using a keyboard.
You can read more interesting things out of his presentation.