October – 2009 – techPortal

Web Accessibility - A Primer October 27, 2009

Speaker: Christian Wenz

Making a web site accessible may require extra effort, but also increases the target audience. The W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative released their Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 specification in May 1999, and version 2.0 followed almost ten years later. This session will give you a good overview of the concepts, principles and guidelines of the specifications and provides you with a basic understanding of how to create accessible web content.

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Secure Programming with the Zend Framework October 13, 2009

Speaker: Stefan Esser

The idea of that talk is to go through the classes of vulnerabilities or security problems that you usually need to take care of yourself and look at the Zend Framework to check what internal protection ZF offers and how they are used and what problems you still need to solve on your own.

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Using PHP_Code_Sniffer October 12, 2009

PHP Code Sniffer (PHPCS) is a package for syntax checking, available from PEAR. It can check code against defined rules covering anything from whitespace through doc comments to variable naming conventions and beyond. In this article we'll look at getting started with PHPCS, using it to syntax check our files, and go further to look at how the rules are create and the standards defined.

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