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Gary McGraw, Automatized Code Review Tools for Security. Outgoing.

An basic overview article about electrostatic analysis tools and how they can be applyed to amend software security. The article speaks a bit about the history of Cigital’s ITS4 tool.

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Minnesota’s local media sites, including TV, Newspapers, and Radio, are experimenting with video on the web based on the rationale that advertisers will give a premium for video ads. A just assumption.

Notwithstanding, one of the magnanimousest problems I see with the on-line video offerings of media companies today is that they are being sustained backward by their video content management systems, which lean to be much less feature robust that freely usable alternatives.

Hither is a speedy list of 10 specs I would require a company that’s good about operating a business around on-line video:

1. Full quality audio

2. Flash video (not a proprietary player that won”t work for all of your viewers)

3. Entire screen option

4. Video that seems full good screen.

5. Related to videos after a video finishes (you want to preserve people about, the right way?)

6. Email-able-bodied video links

7. Embeddable video

8. Bass linkable video

9. Closed up captions

10. RSS feeds for videos (lots of opportunity hither)

Bonus: 11. Alive video streams

Bonus 12: Unrecorded chats.

I don”t know of a single mainstream media site that comes close to providing this level of technical support for their video content. Unhappily, mainstream media sites are probable compensating a boatload of cash for proprietary video CMS’s instead than employing liberal, feature-racy, platforms rather.

Desire to increase views? Throw it soft for people to yoke, email, imbeded, or RSS your videos. Get them cognize what else may worry them.

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Behaviour Beaten back Development or BDD is one of the up-to-the-minutest waves to make software development circles. In this post Mario Gleichmann distils the overall rationale behind BDD, including its relation to other areas like test laboured development(TSS), unit testing and mock objects.

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Jason : I’m ne’er a immense fan of string free-based designs, in the first place because of their lack of compile time validation, etc… however, lets flirt with changing your “Personality” pattern to figure out in.NET…

If you drew the data type of “Personality” be a System.Type object, and then you could do a fairish assignment:

machine.Personality = typeof(ScanSideways);

This stages a could of interesting problems. For the first time, you have a compile time dependancy on the ScanSideways class. Easy fixable by a tenuous change:

machine.Personality = Type.GetType(”ScanSideways”);

Which you can at present parameterize, load from a file, whatever. Thusly far, this is cake. My problem is that we have lots all the type checking. At some point the program will accept the type object (still the powerfully typecast version) and do an Activator.CreateInstance telephone followed by a cast to the right data type. Boom.

In person, I bid there was a way of pining down the constraints of a picky type, some form of validation rules that could be put on (hey, hold back! you named that earliest in your post <G>). For example I could tell:

public class Machine {
    [BaseType(typeof(Personality))]
    Type Personality { catch; set up; }
}

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I had skiped this article would be on changes to the next version of the CLR which let it to be hosted inside SQL Server and other “ambitious” environments.  This is more by and large interesting than you might cogitate, because it makes an opportunity for other processes (i.e. your processes) to host the CLR with a like level of integration and control.  This lets in control over memory usage, synchronization, meandering (including fibers), led security models, assembly storage, and more.

Nevertheless, that topic is of necessity related to our next release, and I cannot discuss abstruse details of that next release until those details have been publically divulged.  In former October, Microsoft is concuring its PDC and I require us to reveal many details at that time.  In fact, I’m blessed up to be a member of a PDC panel on this topic.  If you work at a database or an application server or a likewise perplexed product that might benefit from hosting the CLR, you may require to go to.

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With the late buzz around OSGi and Java, modularity has filled center stage as a discussion topic in the Java community. This post incorporates a summary on a expert session entitled ‘Modularity in the Java Platform’ which discusses an alternate yet complementary spec to OSGi named Java Module System (JSR-277).

Do you cognize where your data is? If you’ve been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it’s in a database. It would appear goofy to set up data, specially ofttimes converting data, into code.

How close to those business rules? Business rule engines haven’t been about as foresightful as databases, but times are a-changin’. Envisage a world where the folks that come up up with the rules can participate them, essay them and yet deploy them without having the development team so much as hoist a finger. Costs are signifigantly glowered, deadlines are encountered, everyone drives bonuses and is advertised to figurehead VP positions.

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Today, I used up a much asked break to go to a Microsoft Research talk by Paul Dietz , who is a scientist at the Mitsubishi Galvanizing Research Lab (MERL ).

In discovering one of his inventions, a system that automagically pinks your waitress when your glass is half empty-bellied, Paul identifyed RFID tags as a “inactive, non-interactive component”. He and then went to draw how he and his associates at MERL have forecast out how to enable two devices to convey employing low-pitched cost LED lights , at hundreds of bits per second. But I’ll pay off backward to that, in a second.

Suddently, it hit me: a speedy and unproblematic way to distinguish microformats to my friends and colleagues!

A microformat waits on the same function on the Web as an RFID tag in a Walmart warehouse ! Microformats are descriptive but inactive. They simply sit out at that place and waitress to be discovered by an concerned agent. They are little and gentle to overlook, unless you’re seeking them. Microformats, like RFID tags, talk to everyone.

What is a microformat? A microformat is an RFID tag for Web pages. Do you attend any problems with this analogy?

At present, backward to LEDs and Paul Dietz… I ask over you to chew on this for a second:

LED a + LED b = communication medium

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