Week in review mode developer

by James Turner | @ blackbearnh | Comments: 1 | 24 November 2010Tweet

If you live in the United States, this is the week to the throat in Turkey. I wondered aloud last night my wife if the Thanksgiving is the day of the year when most people eat the same food. You can one of our readers overseas add to the conversation?There is a holiday in his country where everyone eats practically the same? de anyway, by American brains shut an overdose of fill, some developer news here can be used.

The Java language has continued to evolve over the years, adding features such as genéricos.Hay components an ambitious wishlist of things that developers would like to see in Java 7, but apparently there is not enough time to do everything and still leave the timely release. Of a result, the joint programme has decided to give up some of the up Java goodies 8, is not expected to grace the world until the end of 2012.

As a LISP-head, the deferred list item recovery that detects more than my eye is lambda expressions/cierres.Con even relatively "primitive: languages such as Objective-C, beginning to take these structures in the form of blocks, Java is already behind the curve in this regard." It is a shame to have to wait another year.

No word if Java Plan B require prescription from a doctor, or be made available to the developers of those under age 18 without a note from his parents.

As someone who has 10 framed shares of SCO hanging over your toilet, I was definitely among the many who rejoiced in thrashing sound SCO received at the hands of Novell, insofar as owner of Unix. Conventional wisdom was that Novell would be reasonable for the IP of Unix caregiver and would be unlikely to use against those who used Linux.

Life is definitely less clear now that is consumed by Attachmate Novell. On the one hand, part of the deal implies the transfer of a large piece of Novell intellectual property to a company front for Microsoft. It is hoped that it is only the normal collection of software that every large company seems to stop spam and not something that would provide a means of attack against Linux patents.

I am not sure what is teaching in the universities of new fangled these days, but for sure ain't security software.At least that is the course I do, given the number of attacks, SQL injection and shell that I hear about from each month.

My noise last week was about null pointer exceptions.They are sloppy, but normally inofensivos.Los attacks injection can take towards bottom system or disclose confidential information to the bad guys.In my wasted youth, I ran a chat system and added support for email, so people could send mail from within of programa.Cometí failed to attach to the email address at the end of a chain that runs as a shell command address.Not long before they need some "intelligent" uses the email address";""rm-fr"There was my entire source tree of (no support).

Open source software is particularly vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, due to the SQL schema is generally conocido.Si you're lazy and build queries that use string concats with data provided by the user, is trivial to enter data that is successful, but also inserts, or deletes data, tables completely diferentes.Debe always use parameterized tools to place data in queries or insertions and probably self-sanitize the data as well.

It must also execute queries with the credentials necessary minimum, for example, have a user database that can only be selected, and use it for any part of the system that does not require updates datos.Y base have a privileged of being the only one who can update or access to sensitive areas of the database user.

This is all for this semana.Sugerencias are always welcome, so please send suggestions or news here.

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Scholar Techy week in review mode

by Kat Meyer | @ KatMeyer | Commentary | 19 November 2010Tweet

Person techy news this week:

Scientific American:

A neutral media is the basis of a fair and competitive market, democracy and the ciencia.Debate economy has increased again in the last year of if government legislation is necessary to protect neto.Es neutrality. While the Internet and the Web usually thrive on lack of regulation, some fundamental values must retain legally.

From Techland:

Whether or not the intentions of the enraged Internet was down a local publication or not, the controversy cooks source magazine has forced doblar.En Magazine interview with the daily Hampshire, Griggs tells reporter performs free magazine. "November 2010 Edition will be the final publication.""The name is compromised, great time", said Griggs.

Of paidContent:

It is now clear that the scanning process will finally transform all industries, companies lose control of their customers when new technology allows you to interact with products...You may also have heard before, but to respond to the breakpoint you will actually need to become your own trap.To do this you need to identify the breakpoint you need to leverage (such as banks were made with telephone banking) not only combat it (as in the music industry with sharing files).

From the Bookseller:

Hachette Livre has reached an agreement with Google which will see the editor of books printed in France, giant search engine put an end to a long-running dispute arising from large digitalizar.El Google book scanning project agreement shall be subject to six months 'fit' and is also available for other French publishers.

From Quill and Quire:

"When asked if he is afraid of leaving that down partisans Gaspereau, defending the right of the company to release the now long title in demand at its own pace slow and steady, Steeves don't miss a beat."We have acceded to our guns, said."We select partners that fit our philosophy, [that] creative works and originales.El principle most important here is to serve as the text and serve the author, and that is what we have done."[C & P] will take good care of Johanna and obtain an edition of quality by ahí.Eso is all that matters."

Of paidContent:

"" I don't think that it has to go to Knopf.No definitely I think I have to go to Simon Schuster & libro.Por business that I think will be a very contentious conversation, "said.""You can only obtain hardcover (rights), but I still don't know."

Feel free to send along any news, blogs, or things of note from the publishing world.

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