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Ilia Alshanetsky’s book php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security has just been released and I ordered my copy this morning (hopefully early enough to have Ilia’s signature on the inside cover!). As with the other php|architect publications the PDF version is available to purchasers so I downloaded it to whet my appetite while I wait out the estimated 2 weeks for air shipping to New Zealand from Canada.

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Mike Hillyer’s latest article in the MySQL.com developer zone explains how to use the Nested Set model for representing hierarchical data, and the advantages it has over the Adjacency List model. SQL Nested Sets were one of the things I forgot immediately after doing the relevent exams at school so Mike’s article was a welcome refresher tutorial which I recommend reading.

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