Archive - 2009

November 30th

In print

Fusion Authority is a professional technical journal that speaks to Flex professional developers. I thought this sounded like a great idea when I heard about it, and was keen to help out.

November 16th

Silver arrows return

So McLaren have used the extra 100mil they have this year for not being fined to buy out Mercedes who jumped to Brawn as 75% owners.
The Silver Arrows are back !

But what of Button ?

September 23rd

Make Swiz log what it does in Eclipse (or Flex Builder)

I couldn't locate this anywhere, but the Swiz mailing list was very helpful.

If you want to see what Swiz is up to while it's doing it's wiring, you need to do two things.

1) Include the logEventLevel parameter to SwizConfig

September 22nd

Why Swiz might replace Cairngorm

Like a lot of people, I started off using the Adobe-sourced Cairngorm application framework for Flex applications, but there are several areas of pain with it - and they can't really be addressed within Cairngorm itself.

September 9th

Protecting ColdFusion applications from common attacks

According to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/web_app_security_survey/ the top 3 security issues in web applications are:

  • SQL injection where end users can effect the SQL executed
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS) where users can cause JavaScript to be run by other users
  • Cross-request forgery (CSRF) where actions can executed as if a user is logged in, without that user actually having the site open in his browser.

The following explains how ColdFusion can help protect you from each.

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