In the past few years, I've transitioned from engineering into product management at Zend, and it's been a hugely rewarding experience to be able to toss ideas over the fence to my own engineering team, and have them do all the fiddly tricky bits of actually implementing them! Besides packaging long-term support versions of PHP, we also are publishing...

Local Whispers Tuesday, May 7th 2024, 15:15 BST London, UK For most of the videos that I make, I also like to have subtitles, because sometimes it's easier to just read along. I used to make these subtitles with an online service called Otter.io, but they stopped allowing uploading of...

Xdebug Update: May 2024 Monday, May 6th 2024, 16:30 BST London, UK I have not written an update like this for a while. I am sorry. In the last months I have not spent a lot of time on Xdebug due to a set of other commitments. Since my last update in November a few things have...

python-oracledb 2.2, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now on PyPI.Today we’re pleased to release python-oracledb 2.2 to coincide with the just-announced, general availability of Oracle Database 23ai.Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashPython-oracledb is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with...

I’m posting this quick blog in the ‘so I can find it again’ category. The question came up about how to connect to Oracle Autonomous Database using Django and a wallet ZIP file.Photo by Brecht Corbeel on UnsplashMake sure Django and python-oracledb are up to date:python3 -m pip install Django oracledb --upgradeAt time of writing, this installed Django...

EDIT 2024-04-25: Clarified when a PHP application is vulnerable to this bug.Recently, a bug in glibc version 2.39 and older (CVE-2024-2961) was uncovered where a buffer overflow in character set conversions to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set can result in remote code execution. This specific buffer overflow in glibc is exploitable through PHP, which...