Dutch PHP Conference 2011

Ibuildings is proud to organise the fifth Dutch PHP Conference 2011 on May 20 and 21, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on May 19.Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location.Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks.

Google Adds Voice Recognition to Chrome

         The latest beta version of Google's Chrome Web browser offers two significant new HTML5 tools for developers. The first is a speech-to-text API, which gives developers the opportunity to create Web apps that accept voice input. "When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, after which the text is typed out for you," explained Google's Satish Sampath.

php.net security notice

            The wiki.php.net box was compromised and the attackers were able  to collect wiki account credentials. No other machines in the php.net infrastructure appear to have been affected. Our biggest concern is, of course, the integrity of our source code. We did an extensive code audit and looked at every commit since 5.3.5 to make sure that no stolen accounts were used to inject anything malicious. Nothing was found. The compromised machine has been wiped and we are forcing a  password change for all svn accounts.We are still investigating the details of the attack which combined a vulnerability in the Wiki software with a Linux root exploit.