Tag Archives: java

codahale.com – A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don’t use MessageDigest.isEquals)

Nice intro to tim­ing attacks along the way.

Alex Payne – Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms

Cross plat­form means it does noth­ing great and every­thing sub-par at best.

SitePoint – Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript

It’s pretty harsh but going through the exam­ples deserving.

ongoing – A Story of O

Oracle’s pri­mary rela­tion­ship isn’t with the peo­ple imple­ment­ing the solu­tions they sell it’s with the peo­ple buy­ing the solu­tions, ie their goal is to make them happy and not the peo­ple on the front lines of the product.

MarketWatch – Oracle sues Google over intellectual property

I don’t which to think that Ora­cle is just insane or stupid.

Why Java Is Not As Fast As C

The age old ques­tion of speed in pro­gram­ming languages.

Object Oriented Programming Is Not an Excuse for Forgetting to Design Your System

This post is ded­i­cated to a lec­turer that I am tak­ing a class with this semes­ter at Texas Tech Uni­ver­sity. This per­son doesn’t like object-orientated pro­gram­ming (OOP), which I do love (I <3 Java big time). His main argu­ment against Java and other object-orientated based pro­gram­ming lan­guages is that it pushes peo­ple away from devel­op­ing