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NetBeans on Ubuntu

On October 11, 2011 By

I’ve been using NetBeans 6.9.1 which was the latest PHP version that I’d found, but also found that it wasn’t automatically updating.  I also tried using the standard package install, but had the same issues (a reported proxy error).  It turns out that the error is related to the version of Java SDK that NetBeans [...]

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My LAMP Server using VirtualBox

On October 9, 2011 By

I’m working on a VirtualBox image for a LAMP server.  There are a few good reasons to use a virtualised LAMP server:

Easy to back-up – you essentially only have a few files to back-up, rather than mirroring thousands of them. The footprint of the backup can also be kept small as you only need [...]

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Blind SQL injection

On June 20, 2011 By

Security is something that’s all too often ignored, and while recent events have helped highlight how vulnerable and insecure we are, but I still see very lax attitudes towards security.  Most disturbing of all seems a complete lack of interest in secure and unique passwords, and I know that almost all of us are guilty [...]

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