Application Development
There are 6 entries for the tag Application Development
There are some topics that warrant the occasional revisit as time goes on, and application security is certainly one of those. As long as we have applications being developed and deployed, it seems we will have bad guys looking to exploit them. While I do believe that the Internet, like the Old West, will eventually need to be cleaned up and a set of common rules enforced, still there will be bad-guys, some people never learn that you can’t just do whatever you want and expect to get away with it. So we need application security. At this point,...
It’s been a good long while since I wrote an installment of Load Balancing for Developers, but you all keep reading them, and they are still my most read blog posts on a monthly basis, so since I have an increased interest in WAN Optimization, and F5 has a great set of WAN Optimization products, I thought I’d tag right onto the end with more information that will help you understand what Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are doing for (and to) your code, and how they can help you tweak your application without writing even more code. If you’re...
THE LITTLE GYM AND TODDLER HERD-THINK Lori and I take the Toddler to the Little Gym, a place for toddlers to go hang out with other toddlers and do some semi-directed activities designed to build confidence and muscle. We think it’s really very good for him, and he attends with his cousin (a Cisco Spawn – Shhhh), so he gets even more benefit than most of the children there. One thing that is definitely a truth though is that when kids behave correctly, the other children don’t even notice, when a child misbehaves, all the...
There is an excellent article over on SD Times about multi-core programming and virtualization that delves into the approaches that application developers can consider to take advantage of multiple core CPUs. For those that missed it, I wrote a bit about this not so long ago. I was looking at multi-core from the perspective of how application developers could take advantage of the increased processing power, and why it is that few if any enterprises will bother. But Mr. Handy is approaching the problem from the perspective of “should you bother” with Virtualization becoming so commonplace, and then talks...
I find it amazing how many ways we can find to slice a pizza, skin a cat, or solve a technology problem. Truly amazing. Thus far in my multi-core odyssey, I have run into driver-based solutions, library-based solutions, and shim-based solutions to how to maximize use of multi-core. That's not to mention the upcoming version of C++, which is supposed to include the solution in the compiler. Each of these approaches has its strengths, though I think the best option would be for the OS to resolve the problem directly. It already has a scheduler and mechanisms for semaphores and...
As you've no doubt noticed, there is a bit of duplicate name confusion in the Web 2.0 world. Developers say "Web 2.0" and they mean SOA, dynamic binding, etc. When business people say "Web 2.0" they mean blogs, video, RSS feeds. DevCentral is an example of Web 2.0, the business version. We've got blogs, video (no DRM, thank you), podcasts, forums, articles, and it's all wrapped together nice as pie. But DevCentral is also an example of utilizing Web 2.0. Some of the wizardry done behind the scenes and added to by the team is pure Web 2.0 nirvana. So...
