The Open Web Application Security Project promotes security best practices for web application development. OWASP have run training and conferences in the US and Europe. The good news is that Australia has been added to the list, along with Asia and Israel.
Useful OWASP artifacts:
If you build web applications I highly recommend taking the time to look at those documents.
Anyone else find the rules for the new OGC Individual Membership kind of…well…restrictive?
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While looking for Cameron Purdy’s presentation titled “Top 10 Ways to Botch an Enterprise Java Technology-Based Application” I came across this link in a Google search response:
http://www.dzone.com/links/top_10_ways_to_botch_enterprise_java_applications.html
Which promptly returned:
500 Servlet Exception
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -2
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Andrew Hallam | | 13 October 2007, 14:52
This website is being has been migrated from Wordpress to Textpattern. Some breakage is going to occur, but I’ll do my best to minimise it.
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Wow, more upheaval in the commercial geospatial world. Pitney Bowes are dropping the MapInfo brand.
The opportunity recently presented itself to reverse engineer a PostGIS database using three different data modelling tools. Heere are some first impression on these tools, and results of how they handled the PostGIS geometry data type.
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Settings for using a Minimax MM-5500U EVDO modem, on Telstra’s EVDO network, from Ubuntu Feisty. Possibly only of interest to Australian EVDO wireless broadband users.
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In an effort to improve my personal task management and prioritisation I’ve fallen into the GTD (Getting Things Done) tools trap. Several tools have been evaluated, wasting more time than they have saved. Worse, none of them have been satisfactory (for me), but one is close.
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The terms “thin client” and “thick client” are often used to distinguish between any application accessed via a web browser and native desktop applications respectively. This binary classification often results in all web applications being considered as “thin clients”, which is not the case. This article offers a more useful classification.
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There is only one reason why I carry a Palm Pilot. Times for Palm OS is an excellent timesheet application, especially if you have multiple clients on the go at one time. However, synchronising my Palm Pilot with Windows XP running inside VMware has been troublesome.
Aside: It looks like Comit now also have a Pocket PC version of Times.
Since upgrading to VMware Workstation 5.5.4, on Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn, this is what I do:
- Run: sudo mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb
- Start VMware Workstation.
- Start Windows XP virtual machine, and log in.
- Make sure XP has the focus.
- Put the Palm Pilot in the cradle.
- Start Palm Desktop (which I’ve configured to start the HotSync applet).
- Synchronise.
If someone has a better approach please leave a comment. Also, it looks like USB will be handled differently in the coming VMware Workstation 6.0.
