Recently the topic of whether it was better practice to use an SDK or basic HTTP calls when interacting with the API of a foreign service came up on Programmable Web and on Traffic and Weather.
AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I StartedMoving from physical servers to the "cloud" involves a paradigm shift in thinking. Generally in a physical environment you care about each invididual host; they each have their own static IP, you probably monitor them individually, and if one goes down you have to get it back up ASAP.
4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary VisualizationVideo from Derbycon 2012. All videos, with downloads, can be found at this link shortly: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/mainlist
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Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 1 - Overview and EnumsASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Pages 3.1 were released on January 20. I call it the star-dot-one release, not sure if that one's going to stick. Here are the top links to find out more: Let's run through what's involved in getting them and trying some of the new features.
Queueing in the Linux Network Stack[A slightly shorter and edited version of this article appeared in the July 2013 issue of Linux Journal. Thanks to Linux Journal's great copyright policy I'm still allowed to post this on my site. Go here to subscribe to Linux Journal.]
Storing user passwords safely in the databaseData security and privacy have been in the spotlight in 2013 after the Snowden revelations. But for services like Mist.io where sensitive data are involved, protecting access to these data was always essential.
beautiful-docs/README.md at master · PharkMillups/beautiful-docs · GitHubI love documentation. If you work with/are writing code intended for usage and consumption by more than one person, you should love it, too. Documentation and other resources will make or break the success of your project.
Html.AntiForgeryToken – Balancing Security with UsabilityWhen writing forms for your ASP.Net MVC websites the common approach to ensuring only real people use them site is to simply add an Html.AntiForgeryToken() to your form’s view mark-up and controller and be on your way.
Engineering @ ZenPayroll — Keeping Your Data CleanActive Record validations are an integral part of any Rails application, and with good reason. Maintaining a comprehensive set of validations guarantees that only valid and consistent data will be written to your database.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.