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January 2007
January 30, 2007
Development Tool for Designers
In his recent review of Expression Web, Mario Morejon of CRN sounded fairly impressed with Microsoft's new Web authoring tool, and I agree with his assessment. Expression Web includes Microsoft's VBScript and JScript Script Editor and a variety code validation tools, but it's aimed primarily at designers not developers (it's not included in MSDN subs). If you haven't seen it yet,
you can try before you buy, natch.
Posted by John Dorsey at 10:01 PM Permalink
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January 23, 2007
Firebug is Hot
To paraphrase author Joe Hewitt, AJAX pages don't stand still, which can make debugging AJAX web sites a real challenge. In his article, AJAX Debugging with Firebug, Joe details the workings of his indispensable Firefox plug-in debugger, Firebug, which functions as an inspector and editor for JavaScript, CSS, etc. It lets you set breakpoints in JavaScript, provides graphs of network load activity, renders modifications on-the-fly without refresh, and so much more. You can download Firebug from Joe's web site.
Posted by John Dorsey at 08:58 PM Permalink
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January 17, 2007
Exploring the Possibilities with Amazon's EC2
Here is an interesting case study in deploying Oracle SOA Suite 10g components through Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): "Amazon EC2 and Oracle SOA Suite a Strong Combo"
In other EC2 news, members of Amazon's Developer Connection can share pre-built Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), pre-packaged server images with all the settings configured. You can boot Amazon EC2 instances of say, Fedora Core 4 with Apache pre-installed, or a trial edition of Windows Server 2003 running on Qemu & Fedora Core 6. For more information see Amazon's list of public AMI's
Posted by John Dorsey at 12:05 AM Permalink
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January 05, 2007
Defending Web 2.0 Security Soft Spots
Google rang out the old year scrambling to patch a cross-site scripting hack that left its web apps vulnerable to exploits. Such hacks are inevitable in just about any distributed architecture, but is the collective Web 2.0 development community taking a proactive approach to addressing these threats? Jeremiah Grossman of Whitehat Security, compiled a TODO list that highlights the need for best practices and security tools specifically geared toward web application development:
2007 web application security project ideas
Posted by John Dorsey at 07:52 PM Permalink
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