Please give a brief introduction of yourself

I am Aditya Mooley from Nagpur, aka Orange City. I am working with SANIsoft Technologies for last 7 years and responsible for building high performance and scalable web apps using LAMP. I also coordinate Nagpur PHP Meetup which is a monthly event for PHP developers in Nagpur to share their knowledge of PHP and related technologies.


What are your contributions to FOSS projects ?

I am a dev team member of Coppermine Photo Gallery. I have developed Koppermine – a KDE client for uploading photos to your Coppermine gallery directly from your desktop. I have also contributed some JQuery plugins.


What will your talk be, exactly ?

I will be giving 2 talks. First one is – Profiling PHP apps with XHProf and the other is – Writing Secure applications in PHP.


What do you hope to accomplish by delivering this talk? What do you expect ?

My talk on Security in PHP apps is to make the PHP developers aware of common security issues like XSS, SQL injection, etc. and how to avoid those by writing better programs. After this talk I expect developers to feel more concerned about these issues and take the steps needed to improve their coding habits.

My other talk is about using a profiling tool in PHP. I expect that the PHP developers will consider using this tool whenever they think of optimizing their application.


When was your first contribution to Coppermine project and what was it ?

Well, it was back in 2005. I had fixed a small bug in the code to allow use of ImageMagick in Coppermine installed on Windows platform (Yes, I used to work on Windows 2000 at that time :) ). This was my first ever contribution to any FOSS project.


What’s the most important piece of advice you would give to people working on their first contribution to any FOSS project ?

Start with simple contribution. It will boost your confidence. The best place to start with is, the list of bugs to fix. And always remember that any contribution to FOSS is big, even if it about fixing a typo in documentation.


What are your tips for secure programming with PHP.

The key is – don’t trust the users of your application. If you keep this in mind while coding then you will end up writing the most secure code you have ever written. Do read PHP manual and most importantly, attend my talk on security ;) .


Have you enjoyed previous editions of gnunify ?

I will be attending gnunify for the first time. But I am sure it will be a great fun.