http://blog.printf.no ctrl-paw-delete Thu, 08 May 2008 08:35:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first beta release of Slumber is now available, this is only compatible with Sleep 2.1-b24 and newer. Head over to http://code.google.com/p/slumber/ to download. In other news, the Sleep website has moved to http://sleep.dashnine.org/, and now sports a brand new sleek design. Nice! And in yet other news, I installed a captcha ... http://blog.printf.no/?p=29 Raphael Mudge has started a new Sleep discussion group on Googlegroups: http://groups.google.com/group/sleep-developers http://blog.printf.no/?p=28 Raffi released a new beta of Sleep, get it while it's hot. Guaranteed to work well with Slumber. http://blog.printf.no/?p=27 For a while, I considered adding an XML-RPC layer to Slumber, but after examining a few libraries it quickly became obvious that such a feature would be better and more simple to implement with scripting (using the HOES syntax). So here's a quick tutorial showing how to use the Apache ... http://blog.printf.no/?p=26 Prepared statements can improve performance and secure your applications against SQL injections. With the 1.0 release of Slumber, it is easy to create and execute prepared statements. This article will demonstrate how to use prepared statements. First of all, import the JDBC extension and connect to the database: use(^no.printf.slumber.JDBC); $connection = dbConnect('com.mysql.jdbc.Driver', 'jdbc:mysql://host/db', ... http://blog.printf.no/?p=25 Currently, the removeHTMLTags() function uses a simple regular expression to remove *all* HTML-like tags. I say HTML-like because there is a slight possibility that this method might remove some string fragments that are not HTML tags. One premise is that it should be possible to specify a white list to ... http://blog.printf.no/?p=24 KDE4 beta 1 has been released (announcement), get the KDE 4 live cd here. http://blog.printf.no/?p=23 I'm glad to announce an alpha release of Slumber, a set of useful extensions for Sleep. So far it consists of a JDBC bridge, as well as a bridge for text various text operations. The biggest news here is the support for prepared statements, which are strongly encouraged for queries ... http://blog.printf.no/?p=22