Once upon a time (in the dark ages of web application development) we built our applications as a single monolithic Perl CGI script, or perhaps a large JSP file containing the entire application. The code looked something like this:
costs.jsp
<% Cost[] costs = CostHelper.calculateCosts(loanData, currentDecision); %>
Current Costs:
Cost …
Posted Mon 27 October 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
Developers of web applications have quite a few different kinds of "attacks" to worry about. I will try to describe the major categories I know of, including one which is "new" as of the past month or so.
The most venerable is the SQL-injection attack (and related attacks …
Posted Thu 09 October 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
This post is mostly for my own use; it updates a previous posting with the details of exactly how I am sending out the email version of these blog postings.
I am sending email copies of the technical postings to this blog to an email list of people at my …
Posted Mon 15 September 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized
You are really lazy. It's nothing personal of course -- everyone tends to procrastinate to some extent, but right now it's YOUR turn. In just a moment, I am going to convince you that you want to do something. You'll agree that it's a good idea, you'll tell yourself that you …
Posted Mon 25 August 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized (backup, bet, lazy, mozy, review, wager)
Suppose (just for the sake of discussion) you wanted to share some blog postings with a group of people at work - and the company email system uses Outlook 2003. Sending HTML email with the blog posting seems like it would be a nice way to do it. But getting Outlook …
Posted Wed 02 April 2008 by mcherm in Uncategorized