After seeing what these guys have accomplished, met up with Maarten and Christian and got motivated to start PHP Zurich. This is running in parallel to the Swiss PHP user group, which tends to meet less frequently and roves around the country, at the cost of establishing regular faces. Amazingly, PHP Zurich has already got it's first non-founding member - Rolf, who I met in London.

Their first meeting is coming up in March, on the 14th at 6:30pm at the Bitflux HQ. The topic for the evening will be PHP Security, as given by Harry himself.]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:59:30 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4786 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4786 his latest entry, Marco Tabini talks about some of the security issues surrounding PHP that have been going around lately, and his take on the situation.

If you happen to keep a tab on the various posts in the community, you have undoubtedly noted a variety of opinions on the subject-I think that security doesn't belong in the language, Chris has made his point clear and Harry sort-of responded to both of us.

As a community, we are all tasked with ensuring that PHP becomes a better product. And by "community" I really mean everyone-individuals, OSS groups and commercial entities. I think that finally, after so many false starts, we are beginning to do a good job of it, too.

The post continues on, talking more about the ever-growing trend towards PHP5 and a push forward towards applications written with it with better security and less issues overall...]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:36:09 -0600