PHP 5.3.9 Released

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The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.

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Google Founder Attacks Piracy Bill Set for House Panel Vote

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The founders of Google Inc. (GOOG) and EBay Inc. (EBAY) attacked Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. House and Senate that they said would threaten the technology industry and lead to Web censorship.

The Internet executives said the bills would have a “chilling effect on innovation” and give the U.S. government the “power to censor the Web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran,” according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers and published today in newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

Lobbying in Washington by Internet companies and motion- picture studios has intensified as a House committee prepares to vote tomorrow on the Hollywood-supported bill, which has become a flash point in the debate over how to curb online trafficking of illegally copied movies, television shows and music.

The controversy has drawn in Google co-founder Sergey Brin, PayPal Inc. co-founder Elon Musk, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang, who were among 16 Internet executives signing today’s letter.

The House bill, and similar legislation in the Senate, would let the Justice Department seek court orders requiring U.S. Internet-service providers, search engines, payment processors and ad networks to block or cease business with non- U.S. websites linked to online piracy.

Read the full news at Bloomberg.com

Web Designer Needed In Brooklyn

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Scope of the services

The consultants will provide programming support, troubleshooting, processing support, and monitoring daily data processing for the data warehouse. They will work with an IT team of database administrators, programmers, web designers and provide all technical activities related to the data warehouse and the application.

Mandatory skills

Design and develop web-based CBIDAS services and functions for an Inspection Web Portal.
Minimum 2 years experience with Web Center Suites.
Able to use Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio.

Click here to apply.

What is the difference between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements?

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I am looking to purchase photoshop for my home computer. We use photoshop cs3 at school and I would like to work on projects at home at the most affordable cost. We use most of the features of cs3 at school. What is the major difference between the original photoshop and photoshop elements?

Answers:
MARY – “Photoshop Elements is a significantly scaled down version of the full blown version of Photoshop.You can do some of the same things in Elements as you can in Adobe Photoshop, but you have much more flexibility in Photoshop. Simply put, Photoshop is the pro version of the software and Elements is more geared toward hobbyists.

The cost of the two software packages reflect these differences. But, the good news is that, as a student, you can buy Photoshop at a sizable discount. I believe the Student/Teacher version of Photoshop is about 20% of the cost of the regular version. So, if you’re thinking of buying Photoshop, doing it when you’re a student is definitely the way to go.”

SCRAWNY – “Essentially, Elements is a “junior” version of Photoshop. Photoshop is much more powerful in what it can do. It costs more too.”

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Jobs: Web Designer

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Job Position Needed:Web Designer

Job Description:
Loewy Design, an award winning interactive agency based in Melville NY, seeks a full-time Web Designer to join our team. Our new designer will have at least 3 years of agency or in-house interactive experience and is passionate about building exciting user experiences that exceed our client’s expectations. You’re a total team player with an entrepreneurial sprit and you enjoy problem solving with our strategists, information architects and technology team.

This is a jr. to mid-level full time position perfect for a Long Island resident who is tired of the NYC commute. Applicants must be able to display a stellar online portfolio with a description of your role in each project.

Qualifications:
• Minimum of 3-6 years interactive design experience
• Intimate Knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
• Strong understanding of designing intuitive site functionality, interaction, & site architecture
• Solid foundation in typography, layout, and design (BFA preferred)
• Flash and motion design
• Comfortable owning projects from the conceptual stage through to production
• HTML/CSS/Javascript coding is a plus but not essential
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to multi-task and adapt to frequent and unexpected change

Responsibilities
- Create design experiences that push innovative technology
- Conceptualize and design websites, ecommerce sites, web apps and mobile sites
- Design and develop creative online marketing campaigns including emails, landing pages, social media and banners.
- Excellent creative/aesthetic judgment and the ability to communicate it
- Maintain knowledge of current industry marketing trends and best practices
- Likes to have fun and is not afraid of hard work or long hours when required
- Assist in mentoring and education of jr. designers
- Champion the improvement of creative processes
- Contribute to our blog and marketing efforts
- Represent Loewy Design at industry functions as a way to promote our capabilities and to aid in recruiting efforts.

- All candidates must reside within 25 miles of Melville, NY.

Click here to view more details of the job listing.

What’s New in Opera Dragonfly 1.1

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Opera 11.51 was released on September 1, 2011. It’s a minor update which fixes a known security issue, improves stability and offers full-screen support in Mac Lion.

Of more interest to web developers is Dragonfly 1.1 — Opera’s Firebug-like console. I gave version 1.0 a glowing review in May, but there were a few minor niggles which caused concern. More than 200 bug fixes and interface updates have been implemented in the latest edition, so let’s look at the highlights…
DOM Inspector

Perhaps the biggest problem with Dragonfly 1.0 was the lack of links and line numbers to styles in CSS files. That problem has been addressed and I suspect many developers will be thankful.

The Inspector now supports pseudo classes and pseudo elements. This includes ::before and ::after which now appear as nodes within the DOM tree. It’s a fantastic facility which is yet to appear in competing tools.

A new button is also provided which allows you to toggle states including :link, :visited, :hover, :active, :focus and ::selection. While a similar function exists in Firebug, few developers know about it and Dragonfly’s implementation is superior.

Finally, there’s an new “Search” tab which allows you to locate elements by text, regular expression, CSS selector and XPath (e.g. (e.g. enter //div to find all div elements in the page). Very useful.

JavaScript Debugger
An improved search facility has also been implemented within the Scripts tab. It’s possible to search using text or regular expressions across a single file or all JavaScript files. You can also include or omit dynamically-injected scripts.

Network and Resource Inspectors
It’s now possible to inspect POST data sent via standard or multi-part forms. A new search field is also provided in the Resource Inspector.

One of the primary criticisms of v1.0 was Ajax monitoring. Dragonfly 1.1 is better and, given my limited test, it correctly reported all background XMLHttpRequest calls. Unfortunately, the returned message body is still shown as an encoded base64 string so it’s impossible to directly inspect JSON data. Opera — please, please address it in the next version!

Read entire article at Sitepoint

Website Customization: What can we do?

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Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web designing.

Every individual would definitely want their website to look good, if not, to the best they can. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create a professional looking webpage.

Color Schemes and Themes.

When designing, always choose matching colors. An example of a matching color would be to have a dark background, with visible words and designs. With the dark theme, try not to mix too many bright colors into the design. What we should NEVER do, is to mix two very different colors, such as purple and yellow. Now, of course, it would depend on the purpose of the website, but those two colors are too striking for one who wants it to look more professional.

Web Design Themes must always suit the company or rather, the organization / etc. If the website was made to cater for a food company, it would be wise to stick to that particular category, rather than to revert to a different theme, such as machinery.

Fonts should be used in regard to the formality of the website. A simple sans-serif font would suffice in most cases. Exceptional cases such as design and art groups might want to use fanciful designs and fonts. Of course, that’s only if you know what you’re doing.

Finally, we must always try to think of our visitors, see the way they see. The resolutions and file sizes of the pictures must not be too large in terms of size. This is to allow maximum compatibility and cater our visitor’s needs.

So, planning is something we should always do, before attempting something.

Rob Diana’s Blog: Web And Scripting Programming Language Job Trends – August 2011

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In a recent post to his blog Rob Diana has posted a summary he’s created of web scripting programming language job trends, complete with stats and graphs generated from Indeed.com and SimplyHired.

August is one of the months that I devote to job trends. Last week I focused on the trends for traditional languages like C++ and Java. Today, we return to what I call the web and scripting languages. You may be wondering what I mean by “web and scripting languages”, and my list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Flex and Groovy.

According to the results on Indeed Javascript is in huge demand right now, completely overshadowing the others on the list. PHP came in second here. The results from SimplyHired show a similar story, but the gap between Javascript and second place – Flex – is a bit smaller. PHP came in third here.

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What is Organic Search Engine Optimization

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Organic Search Engine Optimization is rather like ordinary Search Engine Optimization in that it’s the process of optimizing the design of your web site so that search outcomes using key phrases in search engines like Google and yahoo will rank your web site increased in the non-paid listings. Organic Search Engine Optimization (additionally known as Organic Search Engine Optimization) nevertheless, additionally has a slight distinction from bizarre Search Engine Optimization in certain facets but the principle focus is to work in direction of getting the best ranking in Organic or Organic search outcomes (SERPs).

As an illustration, Organic Search Engine Optimization requires your website positioning staff to guage your web site completely to see how greatest to optimize your web site’s potential. The SEO group will then attempt to determine any technical issues which may bar your web site from being listed correctly through the Organic Search Engine Optimization process.

Organic Search Engine Optimization additionally requires detailed key phrase analysis to be finished so your Organic Search Engine Optimization staff can produce an inventory of appropriate keywords and phrases that can be utilized for your website. Key phrase evaluation ought to require real information about the operate, products and services offered at your website, stay aligned along with your objectives for advertising your website, and try to get the best Organic Search Engine Optimization affect on the search engines and end users. Some Organic Search Engine Optimization specialists will give you a listing of target key phrases and phrases which have been ranked as to how popularly use every is by Internet searchers.

It has been found that to get the best search engine rankings, Organic Search Engine Optimization ought to rely on effective and environment friendly group of the web site, with content chosen by your Natural Search Engine Optimization workforce so that keywords and phrases is not going to look ridiculous when used within the website content. Natural search engine optimization begins with choosing the best Title and Meta tags, creation of on-page text with emphasis on content material and format, after which adopted by insertion of inner links of the varied web pages of your website. If these are followed by your Organic Search Engine Optimization group, key phrase relevance and correct page formatting will increase.

Organic Search Engine Optimization additionally requires guide submissions of your website to directories and search engines. This helps assure you – the shopper – that Organic Search Engine Optimization will meet the particular demands, rules, and authorized requirements of each search engine that’s contacted by your Natural Search Engine Optimization
team.

Your Organic Search Engine Optimization workforce must rely on moral hyperlink constructing strategies, not only to safeguard the security of your search engine rankings but additionally to allow your web site descriptions to be positioned under the right directory categories. Moral Natural Search Engine Optimization hyperlink constructing may also help your web site use solely the proper useful resource internet sites.

Does Organic Search Engine Optimization finish here? Truly, no, your Natural Search Engine Optimization workforce should continuously track search engine submissions in order that they will tweak and amend your website if needed to supply the most effective results for you. Organic Search Engine Optimization also requires that the group doc their monitoring activities so that you your self know what is occurring all of the time.

It would be useful if your Natural SEO group can observe the numbers of holiday makers your web site generates, to make it extra convenient for you. In spite of everything, you have to think about running your group and/or enterprise so Natural Search Engine Optimization ought to be a separate endeavor that others should do for you.
Otherwise, why outsource this function?

Natural Search Engine Optimization goals that can assist you deliver in additional guests than you were getting earlier than, so that your potential sales will likely be maximized within the process. But it’s essential keep away from illicit practices and favor Natural Search Engine Optimization more as a result of:

1) illicit advertising practices don’t replicate effectively on you or the search engine optimization staff you hired.

2) Organic Search Engine Optimization does work when used the correct way.

3) Natural Search Engine Optimization does not harm the search engine you will submit your web site to, so you’ve got a favorable image with search engines like google and yahoo on the whole, and

4) Natural Search Engine Optimization is part of using finest practices which were accepted by most of the Web world nowadays.

How then do you find an Organic Search Engine Optimization group that you could work with? One way is to look for SEO trade information about who are the perfect Organic search engine optimization players currently operating online. Examine the background of the corporate, and pay close consideration to who they cite as their happy clients. You might want to contact these shoppers yourself discreetly so you possibly can inquire into their Natural Search Engine Optimization expertise with that search engine marketing player. One other approach is to ask individuals you know who’ve used Natural Search Engine Optimization themselves. Sometimes, one of the best ways to get correct service is thru peculiar word-of-mouth advertising from individuals you trust.