On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Sun, 15 May 2005 16:30, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>Chris, > >> > >>The only comment I made that was relevant to your list was your > >>ommission of Java. Whislt I heartily applaud that approach, I don't > >>really feel that it is a level headed thing to do. > > > >I merely forgot it, I suspect that's because I don't consider it to be a > >"scripting language". That said, I'll readily agree that it's probably > > quite a good way of getting way of getting reliable code produced in the > > commercial setting. > > > >Whether or not CLUGers would find a talk on Java sufficiently interesting > > to induce them to forsake the warmth of their home fire-sides in the > > middle of Winter is, I suppose, a matter for discussion. > > I'll be in shock, landing as I do from the UK on the Sunday before (: OK. The date is not appropriate under those circumstances. Would you be available the following month? That's the 12th. July
> >>What I did and do object to is the taking of your list out of context as > >>Martin did. > > > >All he did was to put it in some sort of order as he saw it, and adding a > > few minor comments. I have no problem with him doing that. > > As you can probably guess, I disagree with that statement. That's your right and privilege. > >>If you really think you can stand my appalling presentational skills, > >>I'd be happy to oblige. > > > >I have not heard you speak in public, so I can't comment. > > > >>Perm any of C, Bourne shell and/or PHP. 2 of > >>which I'm pretty competent in, since they've just come of age in my > >>hands. PHP only about 3 years worth. Let me know what you want. > > > >Personally, I'd find a talk exposing some of the more esoteric corners of > > the Bourne shell interesting. Particularly so if combined with an > > explanation of the bash enhancements. > > Well, being a great believer in KISS, I'm not the person to ask. > > >A PHP demo would also be interesting, particularly if you could > > demonstrate that the manifold insecurities demonstrated in the past have > > been fixed. > > The last major security problem that know of in php was the problem with > file uploads, which was years ago... I just checked with CIRC and it was > in Feb, 2002. > > Now that doesn't include those brought on by poor scripting, of which > there are plenty ( like phpBB only a couple of months ago ). But > pointing the finger at the programming language in these cases is rather > unfair. How about a talk entitled something like:- "Writing Secure PHP Scripts, An expos/'e of what to avoid" Feel up to something like that? -- C. S.
