phpBB, the open-source PHP forum application that seems to be responsible for more server security breaches than anything else, has hit a major milestone with the first release candidate of the forthcoming v3.0 release. In the v3 new features / improvements list it is good to see that security is highlighted as a core aspect of the improved version, so here's hoping it can get back its history as a running joke with web developers.

Something I've been asked to do several times over my career is to have a list in HTML with the bullet show up as a different color to the text. Unfortunatley the HTML & CSS standards don't allow this without some shoe-horning. You basically have two options:

A little tidbit I forgot along the way - in Rails the belongs_to (1-to-many association directive at the 1 side) directive needs you to assign it a singular symbol and not a multiple, e.g.:
[source:ruby]class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
end[/source]

Here's a quick tip that'll help make life easier for anyone who's trying to use ColdFusion's CFCONTENT tag to send content to the browser. When you're sending a file to the web browser using CFCONTENT you can do it either as an inline file, i.e. the browser will probably try to display it, or you can send it as a file to be downloaded. The only problem is that to do the latter you can't do it with just the CFCONTENT tag, you first need to tell the browser that you're sending a file and then send it, for example: