Enrober 1.2.0 has been released. This release adds a few new features and contains a major change in the way filters are handled. The internal changes have allowed the head, body and footer to be filtered individually. It also enabled early head flushing when output buffers or filters have not caused the entire page to be buffered. For more info checkout the add_filter() entry in the included documentation.

The window.prompt() DOM method creates a simple modal pop-up for user input. The first parameter you pass to it is the text displayed in the prompt, the second allows you to pre-fill a value for the user.

The first of a series of tutorials about using Enrober has been posted. This first tutorial covers the basics of using Enrober.

The guys over at the F-Secure labs posted a great article entitled: Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords?. It's quite interesting; anyone who has anything to do with back-end development, particularity anyone who is responsible for storing passwords should read it. It explains that due to the computing power likely available to an attacker using a MD5 or SHA-1 hash on the passwords you store may allow an attacker to brute-force your passwords, even if you have salted them. The article goes on to recommend several more cryptographically sound hashing schemes that can be used instead.

Version 1.1.0 of Enrober is complete and available at the Enrober homepage. This version adds a couple of features, a bugfix and a major change in the file layout used by Enrober. I thought about leaving the changes to the file structure till a major version number change but I figured it would be good to make the changes early in the project's life-cycle before it is more widely used.

After a long delay due to feature creep and massive re-factoring, I'm happy to announce that Enrober v1.0.0 is now available; it is licensed under the Apache License, version 2. The README and API documentation should give you a good starting point, but I plan to write several posts going a little more in depth with many of Enrober's features.