Past few days I've been very busy converting every aspect of my site from using the normal mysql_query functions from PHP to use the functions from the PEAR libraries MDB2 module. It's taken a while as I've also used the opportunity of revisiting all my code to tidy up the phpdoc comments and more importantly to start using MySQL's prepared statements for any user input that isn't an integer. It should make my site a lot more secure against attack, but there are still a few known holes I'll be patching over the next week or two. Also, you may have noticed the addition of the Vimeo icon in my profile box - that links to my videos on Vimeo of which there are currently only 4 - Egypt 2007, Peru 2008, Rick Berman not welcome at Paramount, and the full 30 minute interview with Marina Sirtis, Garret Wang, and Robin Curtis. They're not particularly good videos as they bounce around a bit, but I'm hoping the Europe 2009 one I'll be filming in a few months should be a lot better now that I have a tripod that's easy to take on holiday.
Now service is resumed lets take a look at some of the web development news over the past few days. Mozilla's pre-Alpha release of Fennec, the mobile version of their Firefox browser has stalled with a show stopping bug that means pages are not actually browsable on some mobile devices - pretty major I'd say. It'd be like a vacuum that doesn't suck.
The people behind jQuery have also released an update that contains a number of bug fixes and optimisations. You can find jQuery 1.3.2 on their site for download.
