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Archive for June, 2010

Git tutorial, getting started with Git

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Below is a short comprehensive description of getting Git up and running in just a few minutes. I personally use OSX as a development machine and so the installation part of Git will cover an installation on OSX. If you like to install Git on another platform please take a look at the Git installation documentation. There are a lot of other ways to install Git, but the one described below seems to bring the least hassle on OSX.
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Written by Sjoerd Maessen

June 14th, 2010 at 7:23 am

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Input validation with filter functions

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Introduction
Although PHP has a lot of filter functions available, I found that still to many people are using (often incorrect) regular expressions to validate user input. The filter extension is simple, standard available and will fulfill the common validations. Below some pratical examples and things to consider when working with PHP filter functions.
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Written by Sjoerd Maessen

June 3rd, 2010 at 8:27 am

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