Microsoft has announced two analysis tools for security wholes: BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fizzer. The first one checks for forgotten security flags and the second checks against flow patten.
There is a nice paper about risks in cloud computing:
Stalking in Amazon’s EC2
Sidechannel Attacks
Data Leakage through CPU Caches
If you are in N.Y. [...]
On JavaWorld John Ferguson Smart wrote a nice article about some of the most interesting Java evolutions in 2008. He discovers tools for Build automatisation (Hudson, Bamboo, Maven, Ant, Grant, Gradle, Subversion), Testing tools (JBehave, easyb, Selenium, WebTest) and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans). Conclusion: a very nice read.
According to this German article (relies on an article by ComputerWorld Australia)Australia plans to filter all internet traffic in AUS. There are two blacklists: one for illegal content (which should be blocked) and one for content for adults.
Trustin Lee has released Ant2IDE. Basically this is a BuildListener that collects (almost) all data required for generating [...]
2014: Maven on Mars. Do the Apache Maven team know that? Ok, here Maven stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution.
10 nice tips about using JavaScript (esp. jQuery) for improving website usability.
On September 30, 2008 starts a (free?) webinar about writing Eclipse RCP applications.
Cool – some years ago I got the idea that refactoring support for Ant buildfiles would be nice and opened a feature request on Eclipse. Now (three years later) this (maybe) could be done in a GSoC project because now it is proposed by the Eclipse team.
Henrik Lindberg writes in his blog about Eclipse Spaces, which provides the ability to publish the current workspace as update site. With that you could easily provide tutorials or blogs. Sounds very interesting … I dont know if required plugins would also be published. So you could e.g. create an
XText editor and publish that example. [...]
PHP-Videotutorials for Webdesigners
(English) Article: Concurrency Testing in Java Applications
Create Web services in two clicks thanks to Apache CXF and AOP
This sounds really cool – enhancing existing classes with webservice capability by using AOP. But I could also think about another aproach: deploy a POJO into a container and just describe which methods should be opened [...]
