JVM Tuning has been long a favorite subject of mine. Maybe some day I’ll share our JVM Settings in full, but for now you need to do two things. Update to JDK 1.6 Update 10 – Once CF8 came out, people started complaining that their frameworks loaded slowly, initial page loads were long, that CFC [...]
Subversion 1.5.3 had enough bugs to warrant a new release two weeks later. See notice below. — I’m happy to announce Subversion 1.5.4, fast on the heels of Subversion 1.5.3. 1.5.3 was discovered to contain a regression in ‘svn merge’; see CHANGES for more information. Subversion 1.5.4 is available from: http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.tar.bz2 http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.tar.gz http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.zip http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.4.tar.bz2 http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.4.tar.gz [...]
In case you guys missed this, a new study finds that with each keystroke on a wired keyboard the electromagnetic waves can be read to recover the keystrokes.That means nothing you type, including passwords, is a secret. Read more @ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10072967-83.html.
I’m back, tired and focused!
I was fortunate enough to be asked to perform an early access review (unedited) of Tariq Ahmed’s Flex 3 in Action. While I read through the book, I was side-tracked, and its definitely my bad I didn’t get this review out earlier. The version I have is 648 pages. Yes, its massive. While this can [...]
As many of you know, for e-Commerce, whenever and wherever you touch credit cards, you must be PCI Compliant. But where do you start to find hosts, who have created an environment for you, and are willing to work with you. Besides Google, oops, I mean Scroogle, you can look at the list Visa provides. [...]
Download: http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.3.zip Version 1.5.3(10 Oct 2008, from /branches/1.5.x)http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.3 User-visible changes: * Allow switch to continue after deleting locally modified dirs (issue #2505) * Update bash_completion to be compatible with 1.5 (r32900, -11, -12) * Improve ‘svn merge’ execution time by 30% on Windows (r33447) * Reuse network sessions during ‘svn merge’, improving performance (r33476) * [...]
Many of you have noticed thats its been quiet around here. Been working on so many interesting new things. Several posts forthcoming!
The PCI Security Standards Council has released a new version of the Data Security Standards today; namely version 1.2. To download the doc and a list of changes: PCI DSS Version 1.2 PCI DSS Summary of Changes (Between 1.1 and 1.2)
