April 25, 2009
I was from the very beginning of the ajax days a anti-framework guy. The XMLHttpRequest object has a pretty straightforward API, easy enough not to need any abstraction layer on top of it. I also took the X on Ajax for real, and used Ajax async calls to call RESTful services on the server side [...]
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April 23, 2009
I’ve been known among my friends for pushing people to use quality open source software instead of illegal copies or copyrighted software, or unregistered versions of shareware programs. I’ve also been pushing the day to blog about this for a while, for some reason.
After using a Mac if only for a few hours – I [...]
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April 20, 2009
The music industry is a declining business as we all know by now. The internet has shifted the control from record labels and publishers to the artists, breaking their monopoly on the most valuable thing in the business: the listeners.
Alongside that, we’re also seeing the printed press die. Newspapers were one the first ones to [...]
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April 19, 2009
During agile project planning meetings, we usually find ourselves having to skecth a mockup of the user interface in order to make sure that both us and the client understood what will be done, and to improve that discussion as well.
If you’re on-site with your client, it’s a no brainer, just pick up a piece [...]
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April 15, 2009
So, a hash is a hash, and all you need to do to compare them is comparing strings right?
Well, while that might be true for PHP version of the hashes, the MessageDigest class in the java security package hashes bytes into other bytes, not strings into other strings or bytes into strings. In order to [...]
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April 15, 2009
This had me looking through the docs for a while to find, so I thought I would share.
If you need to secure a Java EE app, be it a web or EJB module, and want to use container-based security instead of coding it yourself, JBoss provides a nice convenience model for pulling out Principals (users) [...]
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April 1, 2009
For all those that ignored security as a major concern of SOA (me included), here’s an excerpt from the soapUI welcome screen today:
Important Notice
Warning! Do not use soapUI to withdraw money!
Eviware software has been alerted to users using soapUI to withdraw large sums of money from the European National Bank.
So far millions of Euro [...]
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