Peter’s Blog

For those of you that have tried to visit us in the last few days we unfortunately experienced a problem with the server.

At 00:30 or so Friday morning we found the server behaving erratically and finally becoming unreachable. Even a reboot would not fix it.

It turned out we had a rootkit on the server. We have now subsequently reformatted the server and are securing it to try to ensure it never happens again.

Here’s hoping for a smooth ride for a while.

I received the usual Zend newsletter today. Zend have announced a very interesting looking webinar in January.

The webinar is entitled “Seven Steps To Better PHP Code” and is split up into 2 separate webinars.

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I subscribe to many blogs. Most are full of mediocre information. However there is 1 blog that tends to stand out and is by someone who I admire as a PHP coder.

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On my daily rounds of forums views I regularly come across threads that show how much of a problem getting a good coder can be. For that reason I have compiled the following guidelines. (more…)