python-oracledb 2.2, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now on PyPI.Today we’re pleased to release python-oracledb 2.2 to coincide with the just-announced, general availability of Oracle Database 23ai.Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashPython-oracledb is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with...

I’m posting this quick blog in the ‘so I can find it again’ category. The question came up about how to connect to Oracle Autonomous Database using Django and a wallet ZIP file.Photo by Brecht Corbeel on UnsplashMake sure Django and python-oracledb are up to date:python3 -m pip install Django oracledb --upgradeAt time of writing, this installed Django...

EDIT 2024-04-25: Clarified when a PHP application is vulnerable to this bug.Recently, a bug in glibc version 2.39 and older (CVE-2024-2961) was uncovered where a buffer overflow in character set conversions to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set can result in remote code execution. This specific buffer overflow in glibc is exploitable through PHP, which...

I’m a maintainer of several small open-source libraries. It’s a fun activity. If the scope of the library is small enough, the maintenance burden is typically fairly low. They’re usually mostly ‘done’, and I occasionally just need to answer a few questions per year, and do the occasional release to bring it back up to the current ‘meta’ of the ecosystem....

Concealing Cacophony Tuesday, April 16th 2024, 14:30 BST London, UK Over the last few weeks I have been publishing a series of videos on writing PHP extensions. I record these videos through OBS, and then slice and dice them with Kdenlive. This editing is necessary to make up...

Tukio 2.0 released - Event Dispatcher for PHP I've just released version 2.0 of Crell/Tukio! Available now from your favorite Packagist.org. Tukio is a feature-complete, easy to use, robust Event Dispatcher for PHP, following PSR-14. It began life as the PSR-14 reference implementation. Tukio 2.0 is almost a rewrite, given the amount...