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Ben Edmunds, Securing PHP Apps, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2120-4_1
Ben Edmunds1
(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Let’s start with a story. Mike is the system administrator for a small private school in Oklahoma. His main responsibility is keeping the network and computers working. Recently he started automating various tasks around the school by building a web application for internal use. He doesn’t have any formal training and just started programming about a year ago, but he feels pretty good about his work. He knows ...
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