Reviewed: Precision M6500
Posted in Hardware, Technology, tagged dell, laptop, m6500, mobile, precision, review, reviewed, workstation on 12 August 2010
My review of the Dell Precision Mobile Workstation 6500.
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Trim the Fat
Posted in Software, tagged bulk, bulky, code, diet, efficient, fat, fault, lines, microsoft, reliable, tolerant on 30 June 2010
Bulky software has literally become the norm. Object-oriented programming or OOP is supposed to size software down, not up.
Environmental Drift
Posted in Software, tagged availability, deployability, deployment, drift, Environment, environmental, environments, high, redundancy, SaaS, sdl on 9 March 2010
Environmental drift has become a real problem for businesses developing service-based software or Software-as-a-Service. As a result, it must become a key requirement and addressed throughout the SDL rather than trying to address it at the tail end of the process.
Microsoft Losing Ground
Posted in Software, tagged ground, lose, losing, microsoft, Software, Technology on 13 September 2009
Microsoft is falling into the realm of giants who rose fast and die hard. I believe Microsoft is ripe for a large fall as a result of missteps and poor decision making since Microsoft’s most successful CEO, Bill Gates, stepped down.
Why do we still code like this?
Posted in Software, tagged code, coding, data, database, databases, elevation, engineering, hack, hacking, injection, pii, privacy, privilege, Software, sql, vulnerability, vulnerable on 13 July 2009
Given the importance of secure programming these days, why do we still write code vulnerable to SQL injection? Why do “managed” runtimes like Microsoft .NET or Sun JAVA still allow this kind of code to be executed?
Guarding Against E-mail Scams
Posted in Crime, Technology, tagged email, guard, identification, identify, phishing, prevent, prevention, protect, protection, scam, scams, theft on 30 June 2009
Email scams have been on the rise with the downfall of the economy. Take a few steps and precautions so that you don’t fall victim to these not-so-sophisticated, yet clever thieves.
Easy Money: Weak Security Makes It Too Easy
Posted in Politics, Technology, tagged 2FA, bank, banks, cards, credit, database, databases, debit, encryption, magnetic, merchant, scam, strips, theft on 15 June 2009
In today’s day and age, it is too easy to steal our personal and private information. What is worse is that we have the technology to fix it and choosing not to do anything about it.