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The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

The [RFC for a new simple to use password hashing API][rfc] has just been accepted for PHP 5.5. As the RFC itself is rather technical and most of the sample codes are something you should not use, I want to give a very quick overview of the new API:

Why do we need a new API?

Everybody knows that you should be hashing their passwords using bcrypt, but still a surprising number of developers uses insecure md5 or sha1 hashes (just look at the recent password leaks). One of the reasons for this is that the crypt() API is ridiculously hard to use and very prone to programming mistakes.

OS X Notification Center in Safari 5.2

OS X Mountain Lion adds Notification Center for managing alerts. Just like growl, but better.

Safari 5.2 exposes HTML5 notifications API to sites. Every site need to have permission for showing notifications.

Specification is very new and completely different from older version Chrome has. Developer doesn't have to watch for complicated NotificationCenter.

The syntax is very simple:

	/*
	PhotoSelector.js
	Gets a photo from camera or gallery

	Usage:
	var ps = require('PhotoSelector');
	var select = new ps.PhotoSelector();

	//get a photo from the camera
	select.fromCamera(false, true, function(success){}, function(failed){}, function(cancelled){});

	<html>
	<head>
	<script>
	/*
	Converts a 32bit HEX string (42883EFA) to Float 68.1229476928711
	Complies to IEEE 754 Standards.

	Tested with a range of sample inputs. Feel free to report a bug.
	*/

	# xcode-build-bump.sh
	# @desc Auto-increment the build number every time the project is run.
	# @usage
	# 1. Select: your Target in Xcode
	# 2. Select: Build Phases Tab
	# 3. Select: Add Build Phase -> Add Run Script
	# 4. Paste code below in to new "Run Script" section
	# 5. Drag the "Run Script" below "Link Binaries With Libraries"
	# 6. Insure that your starting build number is set to a whole integer and not a float (e.g. 1, not 1.0)

	/**

	Create Thumbnail of Video File
	This snippet captures a thumbnail JPG image, based on a frame @ 2 second time-lapse.

	Titanium Mobile

	*/
	var movie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer({
	contentURL:FILENAME,

	var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
	backgroundColor: '#ccc'
	});

	win.open();

	var table = Ti.UI.createTableView();
	win.add(table);

	var SELECTION_STYLE_BLUE = Ti.UI.iPhone.TableViewCellSelectionStyle.BLUE;

	i386 : iPhone Simulator
	x86_64 : iPhone Simulator
	arm64 : iPhone Simulator
	iPhone1,1 : iPhone
	iPhone1,2 : iPhone 3G
	iPhone2,1 : iPhone 3GS
	iPhone3,1 : iPhone 4
	iPhone3,2 : iPhone 4 GSM Rev A
	iPhone3,3 : iPhone 4 CDMA
	iPhone4,1 : iPhone 4S

	/**
	* Test #1
	* Adding 10,000 Ti.UI.TableViewRows to a Ti.UI.TableView
	* The rows have the Ti.UI.iPhone.TableViewCellSelectionStyle.BLUE constant in them
	*
	* Total time in my Mac: 1228ms
	*/

	var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
	backgroundColor: '#ccc'

	{
	"USD": {
	"symbol": "$",
	"name": "US Dollar",
	"symbol_native": "$",
	"decimal_digits": 2,
	"rounding": 0,
	"code": "USD",
	"name_plural": "US dollars"
	},