Quite a lot really, I know that’s not how the song goes but, HTTPS, the common abbreviation for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, is a requirement of all sites you visit, and really you should be questioning the authenticity of… Continue Reading
This should be obvious, but on the surface, to reasonable people, this seems reasonable. If bad people are doing bad things and the police can get enough evidence to approach a court, they can get a wire-tapping order, which will… Continue Reading
Recently the development teams here have been improving their coding skills by taking on the challenge of Clean code, a practice by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) who has a number of very informative clean code books and clean code… Continue Reading
I have recently been listening to a few of the NDC talks from around the world and the one today that has caught my interest is this one, Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These… Continue Reading
Well not me but, this is an amazing story from Jason Scott who runs Textfiles.com about a time he was sued (genuinely) for what at the end of the trial was Two Billion Dollars, let that settle in for a… Continue Reading
Registered on the 15th of March this year, Nokia, the world famous phone maker filed a patient for Haptic Communication. Which is described as: an apparatus comprises: a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field… Continue Reading
I have a have been puzzling over a problem where I need to create one-time keys to access a system. My question is, is this secure to use a Globally unique identifier or GUID for this key. The consensus is… Continue Reading
I came across this article today Dodgy Coder – Coding tricks of game developers. Some of the things mentioned are genius like number 6. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry – Nick Waanders The solution took maybe an hour. A fellow… Continue Reading
Now before I start this is not a problem with the control, as it turned out it was a problem with the environment. I had set up a text field to take a date and then validate that date using… Continue Reading
I was having a few issues with NHibernate Many-To-Many relationships, I was trying to link sample types with physical locations via a many-to-many so you could not put a sample into a container that did not allow it’s type. I initially… Continue Reading