Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions

Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.

Go forth and read!

VisEmacs.NET pretest

It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on VisEmacs.net for varied reasons, the biggest being that I’m still stuck using Visual Studio 6.0. I’ve watched VS2002, then 2003, ‘05 and now ‘08 get released and I had no itch to scratch.
But you’ve had one. And it’s time that itch was scratched!
Without much further ado, [...]

Why software projects die

Great post over at sourcemaking.com today, 40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die. One recent job I had suffered from many of these AntiPatterns, specifically

Death by Planning
Design by Committee
Irrational Management
Cover Your Assets
Project Mismanagement
Lava Flow
Mushroom Management

and so many more… it’s a great list and a good read if only so you can recognize these success-killers and avoid [...]

What’s a Snow Flake?

There are times when I want to makeĀ  a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature [...]

Rails 2.0: It’s here!

Those guys over at 37signals have done it again and given us a nice shiny present for Christmas: Rails 2.0! Head on over to the Ruby On Rails weblog for the full details. The big feature for me is the debugger… it’s back! It’s just a
        gem install ruby_debug
away! I’ll be [...]