The musings of a passionate albeit opinionated guest on Earth.
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.
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.
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.
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?