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Making safe the cookies and sometime, by link, the sessions is essential in the web development. But in the first times, you need to understand the mechanisms.

The website Carsonified explain how works the cookies en give some secure things for them.

The complete post : How to Create Totally Secure Cookies

The norwegian browser is back !
Although his breakthrough on the market of mobile surfing is more honorable, Opera barely beat out Internet Explorer and Firefox rival free (just 2% market share).

But Opera dont miss qualities, and its respect for the W3C RFC is very appreciated by the developers.

Download it : here
The press review : here

Witch are the Windows’s 7 Sins ?
A list has been written here.

I approve the majority, and you ?
What do you think about this list ?

The new Snow Leopard is available in pre-order and will be available in store the 28th september 2009.

Upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard with Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X. It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new accessibility features. It’s the world’s most advanced operating system, finely tuned from installation to shutdown.

Snow Leopard is an upgrade for Leopard users and requires a Mac with an Intel processor.

More details
Apple website

The SVG or “Scalable Vector Graphics” is a data format created to describe a group of graphic vector.

The project was abandonned by Adobe sometimes ago, but Google took the fire back and published a javascript library for IE.

You can download it here.
The Google page

Noupe.com as published a tutorial for getting started with PHP’s regular expressions.

Regular expressions are a powerfull tool to verify format, integrity and validity of datas.
You can find the article here.
The regular expressions documentation

EasyPHP is one of the first and older package to run “all in one” Apache/PHP/mySQL (and phpmyadmin ^^) on Windows.

EasyPHP is back with three new version :

• EasyPHP 5.2.10
• EasyPHP 5.3.0
• EasyPHP 6.0dev

Those new versions can be installed on Usb keys and have new functionnalities :

• Multilanguages
• Configuration from admin panel
• TimeZone declaration in PHP

Technical configuration :

EasyPHP 5.2.10

• PHP 5.2.10
• Apache 2.2.13
• MySQL 5.1.37
• PhpMyAdmin 3.2.1
• SQLite 2.8.17
• Pecl 5.2.6

EasyPHP 5.3.0

• PHP 5.3.0
• Apache 2.2.13
• MySQL 5.1.37
• PhpMyAdmin 3.2.1

EasyPHP 6.0dev

• PHP 6.0dev [090817]
• Apache 2.2.13
• MySQL 5.1.37
• PhpMyAdmin 3.2.1

EasyPHP website (FR)

Nate Haug has published an interesting post on his blog.

It is a basic comparison between PHP and JavaScript. It’s intended for users familiar with PHP and looking for JavaScript equivalents.

Read the full post.

The new bought website http://www.office.com take life two days ago. For the moment it only redirect you to the Microsoft Office Online.

Later, it’ll have many functions. It’ll announce to the public the Office Desktop’s applications et will allow access to some on-line products (as Microsoft Office Live for exemple).

The website’ll used for more important things later, wait and see.

Source : developpez.com

A new theme is available for the wordpress.com’s blogs : sandbox 1.6.1

The theme’s still the same, it’s only a technical upgrade.

If you’re using an older version of Sandbox and are unsure whether Sandbox 1.6.1 is a good upgrade, or whether Sandbox 1.6.1 will work with your current custom stylesheet, here’s how you can try it out:

1. Visit Appearance/Themes then find Sandbox 1.6.1.
2. Click Preview.
3. If all looks good, activate the theme.

Source : Official blog post