Web Software Architecture and Engineering – Life on the Bleeding Edge

Archive for November, 2009

VirtualBox 3.1 is out! Teleportation (aka live migration)!!!

Now you can supposedly move your VM from server to server, server to client. Sweet! More details @ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog.

LinkedIn Released Developer API!

That’s right. Now you can intergrate your apps with LinkedIn. See the blog entry for more details @ http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/23/linkedin-platform-launch/. I wonder who will write the first RiaForge Project!

CFWheels 1.0 is out!

A very promising framework modeled on Ruby on Rails has finally hit Version 1.0. Find out more @ http://cfwheels.org/.

Did You Know? (Video)

In case you haven’t seen this already. (Trying to motivate folks to keep innovating!)

Major Flaw in CF9 – May Break Code! (Part 3)

Just received a note from Adobe that this bug (the now infamous LOCAL bug) has been squashed and will be available with Updater 1. Woo-hoo!

HP Proven Worst Laptop Manufacturer

I knew this from reading their forums, but the stats are astounding! HP Sucks as Laptops. Read more, and find out the best, @ http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/154921. Summary: “The most reliable companies? A shocker: Toshiba and Asus, both with below a 16 percent failure rate due to hardware malfunction.” “The least reliable brands? Acer, Gateway, and HP. [...]

Git Anyone?

I was wondering if anyone has been using Git for a while, and can speak to working on a team where there is a lot of merging. What’s been your experience like? Is Git mature enough? I’m thinking of jumping ship from Subversion. While I had the same thought about a year ago, new merge [...]

NGINX HTTP Web Server – Take CF to the Next Level

As you guys may or may not know, there has been a lot of improvment in the web sphere in terms of performance tweaking and security. A lot of people have realized that its just not to good to have your web server be a first point of contact (after the firewall). That’s right. Your [...]

Adobe AIR 2 Beta Released!

Tons of new features. More details available at the links below. Adobe Labs Adobe AIR Team Blog

OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks 2010

The Open Web Application Security Project has updated its list of Top 10 Risks. Read this article at Information Week for more details.

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