I requested my plugin to be added to the Wordpress Repository back in April when I created it. I heard back yesterday that this request was approved. Upon hearing that, I decided to upload my plugin to the official repository and now “Bob’s Simplistic Navigation” is available straight out of Wordpress Repository! I am hoping that this will very likely up its exposure and usage. Its so great that such a simple plugin can be so useful to many people.

Or you can go view the Wordpress pages for it by clicking this image below. So go on and check out the Wordpress plugin page, if you look real hard, you may notice I mentioned a few people in the plugin documentation:

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Its PHP Friday!
Long ago, when I was discovering the language of PHP, I was very interested in finding out the security issues that I may come across and things I can do to prevent them. There is a name that is basically synonymous with security in PHP, and that name is Chris Shiflett. Chris wrote the O’Reilly book “Essential PHP Security” in 2005 which is often referred to in many security articles and posts. Chris has also contributed to many other PHP publications.

One of his biggest contributions to the PHP community is the PHP Security Consortium that he founded. This Consortium houses many key projects including the highly recommended: “PHP Security Guide” free to download and a must read.

I want to close this by saying, if you choose to code a web language, you need to take responsibility and learn how to code securely. Nobody is incapable of mistakes, but you need to absolutely do your best to code secure applications. Security needs to take the front seat and always be in your mind when coding an application. The first step to preventing bad code is education. Read articles, books, and warnings. There are many very common mistakes that you can educate yourself on how to prevent.

“PHP the Language” Playing Cards Credits:
The overall card design is based off of the card playing game Magic the Gathering
“Poker” style cards have already been created - Check Them Out

Chris Shiflett Card Credits:
Original image located here: georges flicker
Chris quote found here: RioSec: Chris’s Quotes

Chris Links From Card & Elsewhere:
http://www.shiflett.org
http://www.phpsec.org
http://www.brainbulb.com
http://omniti.com/people/bios/chris_shiflett

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Quick Bio:
PHP started out as a personal project of Rasmus Lerdorf. Originally called “Personal Home Page Tools”, PHP’s first 2 versions were authored by Rasmus. Future versions have been core developed by many, but of course Rasmus is still well involved in development and the community. He is currently employed by Yahoo, an extremely PHP friendly employer. This offers him much opportunity to still be quite active in all areas that are PHP. He is constantly invited to conferences around the world. I have read and heard many times, if you choose to code PHP, you need to know the name Rasmus Lerdorf. You need to know PHP’s history and you need to know the man who originally brought it to us.

Being extremely security savvy, Rasmus decided to point out a security flaw in every single Open Source CMS program when invited to speak at OSCMS 2007. In a recent podcast, I remember hearing Ed Finkler, a key php securing developer and member of the PHP Security Consortium, saying that he would never show code around Rasmus, too scared what Rasmus would point out. Rasmus will not hold himself back anywhere when he sees a insecure application, it could be mid-conference and he will out you. I really like this about him, doing all he can to improve PHP’s overall security. For instance, if he ever commented on this post, he would probably tell me to stop using Wordpress Wordpress is PHP based, but it has a wide and long history of bad coding and security flaws.

Rasmus was the first big name I heard in the PHP community when I started to get involved in it years ago. There are many big names now and loads of developers out there doing very important things, so I will be able to write many of these, but let us never forget this first one. Rasmus, the man who started it all! Thank you Rasmus!

Its PHP Friday!
The first here at my blog. In an effort to knock the dust off my blog, I wanted to create a standard that I will do my best to live by. Every Friday I will be posting some kind of PHP related post. It is only appropriate that the first PHP Friday post be on the first PHP developer. I have just been so incredibly busy working at work and home. However, what I am busy with is coding PHP. Because of this, I come across interesting PHP items all the time. As you know from my previous posts, the PHP movement and community means a lot to me. So I also have a lot of heroes in that community that I would like to write quick bios about and even create these silly cards for. Its been many years since, but as a young teen I was really into the card playing game “Magic the Gathering”. I thought these card layouts would be kind of a cool way to honor some of my PHP Heroes.

“PHP the Language” Playing Cards Credits:
The overall card design is based off of the card playing game Magic the Gathering
“Poker” style cards have already been created - Check Them Out

Rasmus Lerdorf Card Credits:
Original image located here: chrys flicker
Rasmus quote found here: Matt Wade Article

Rasmus Links From Card & Elsewhere:
http://www.lerdorf.com/
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rlerdorf
http://toys.lerdorf.com/

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A New Honorary Blogroll Inductee…
Cast down ye peasantly squire attire young one, for you have been welcomed to my table of Knighthood. I’m sure you always wondered what you would look like with mid-evil armor.

2Perfect is amazingly participative on many a blog. He has put his input in on my blog many a time, added me to his favorite blogs, and also participates on a couple of my Knights [”friends”] blogs all the time as well. He does truly honor me and more importantly, this community of ours.

So…BJ…2Perfect…it is my honor to honor you. I knight’th thou’th Sir BJ “2 Perfect” Nodora of Canada. A place of honor will always be held here for you.

My Honorary Blogroll is just that, a thing of honor. It is the way I can honor my readers and community with the greatest thing possible, a permanent linkback. I am constantly keeping my eye on all comments, actions, and linkback posts that involve this site. If I feel truly honored, than I return the favor by honoring you! Thank you all so much for stopping by!

I am not a true King and although I knight you, it is only valid in the state of unconsciousness. Whenever you are in the state of unconsciousness, feel free to pretend you are a knight and while you are at it, feel free to pretend that I am a King. In fact, I like that. Offer becomes invalid when receiver enters the state of consciousness…

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Go on over to PureBlogging.com and check out my first guestblog post there. David has upgraded me to an Author so I will definitely be chiming in there from time-to-time.

Guestblog Post Link:
Get New Readers and Keep Them

Read it and be sure to comment in, let me know what you think…

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