Software Development
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An Introduction to Go – Elegance with Power and Simplicity
Whilst I usually try to stick with only `bread-butter` languages (i.e. php, python, java & C#), my last project involved…
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Open Session In View Design Tradeoffs
The Open Session in View (OSIV) pattern gives rise to different opinions in the Java development community. Let’s go over…
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Really Understanding Javascript Closures
This post will explain in a simple way how Javascript Closures work. We will go over these topics and frequently…
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SQL Developer’s “Securely” Encrypted Passwords
Recently, while at one of our customers’ site, the customer and I needed to get access to a database. On…
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How the Cloud makes Windows irrelevant
Windows has been running on the majority of PCs for many years now. Microsoft successfully translated its client monopoly into…
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Is there a future for Map/Reduce?
Google’s Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat filed the patent request and published the map/reduce paper 10 year ago (2004). According to WikiPedia Doug Cutting…
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The Mouse is a Programmer’s Enemy
One of the first programming management books I was encouraged to read was Peopleware – Productive Projects and Teams. It…
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10 things you can do to make your app secure: #1 Parameterize Database Queries
OWASP’s Top 10 Risk list for web applications is a widely recognized tool for understanding, describing and assessing major application…
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It’s time: Bring Dart to Android
As one of the first users of Google’s Dart language, I always felt like it could do more than “just…
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