Picking a Platform
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 31st Mar, 2008
Great post on ReadWriteWeb about 5 issues to keep in mind when choosing a web development platform. Regardless of what sort of platform you’re after, these ideas translate well to other technologies also. Here are the things to watch out for:
Reach of the platform - the broader the target market, the more effective the platform [...]
The 12 most common application level hack attacks
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 26th Nov, 2007
I got an interesting paper in my email today entitled The 12 Most Common Application Level Hack Attacks written by Watchfire Corporation. Most development probably know about most of these, but it was nice to see them collected in one place. In a nut shell, these are:
Cookie Poisoning
Hidden Field Manipulation
Parameter Tampering
Buffer Overflow
Cross-Site Scripting
Backdoor and Debug Options
Forecful [...]
Inside Myspace
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 25th Jan, 2007
Here’s an excellent article called Inside Myspace by David F. Carr. It traces the steps MySpace had to go through as they grew from a small website to a social network with technology that needs to handle almost 40 billion page requests a month. The article talks about the architectural decisions that were taken as [...]
The Spider of Doom
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 29th Mar, 2006
John sent me an excellent link today. Number of lessons to take away from this:
Sites/applications need to be robust and tested.
Don’t skimp on your site security
Never underestimate the user’s capacity for doing something daft
The Spider of Doom - The Daily WTF
Integrating the Enterprise Library with BizTalk 2004
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 27th May, 2005
Was doing some research for Nigel who was trying to use the Enterprise Library Logging Application Block in BizTalk 2004 and ran into problems when Enterprise Library needed to be strongly named.
I first came across an excellent blog entry by Tom Hollander on how to manage Enterprise Library in your organisation.
Came across this blog entry [...]
Mobile Application Development Toolkit
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 2nd Mar, 2005
Want to develop for Windows Mobile? Get yourself a free app dev toolkit here (including a 60-day Visual Studio Professional DVD). Here’s the details:
For those new to mobile development, this toolkit includes guidance on getting started with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Compact Framework, technical documentation and information to help take your Windows [...]
