Rob Janssen

Session fixation

In computer network security, session fixation attacks attempt to exploit the vulnerability of a system which allows one person to fixate (set) another person's session identifier (SID).

Two HTML Standards Diverge in a Wood

The two standards bodies that are jointly responsible for developing the HTML specification have cut the final tie that was binding them together.

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Google's Protocol Buffers project, ported to C#

"Protocol Buffers" is a binary serialization format and technology, released to the open source community by Google in 2008. There are various implementations of Protocol Buffers in .NET. This project is a fairly close port of the Google Java implementation. There are two main parts: ProtoGen.

Protocol Buffers

What is it? Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats. Latest Updates http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CHANGES.

Fast, portable, binary serialization for .NET

Introduction protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications.

Creating Performance Counters Programmatically

Performance counters allow numerical information about the current state of the operating system or an application to be recorded and monitored using standard tools. This article explains how to create custom performance counters using C# code.

Framework Fixation - An Anti Pattern

Of course this is a bit of a generalization, but the overall point stands.

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[Nerdy] Sorting Out Sorting

Here's a lovely film I had to watch for my Data Structures and Algorithms class. Very nerdy, but helpful if you are a programmer since you can visually ident...

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