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Is SSL really secure/too much security
Is SSL really secure ? By encrypting messages on the wire people get the feeling its secure and people use it ubiquitiously.
Is encrypting on the wire something that really helps ? I don't really think so , with most networks it is VERY difficult and practically impossible to do .
eg
- In a LAN you need physical access to put a device in between reading all traffic from a PC ( in which case you have bigger problems)
- Switched mean a machine tap is not very usefull ( html is not broad cast)
- You need admin access...
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Silverlight 3- impressive stuff
Just saw this MIX Video
http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T40F
Pretty impressive ( and they handle search engines) , if its as easy as it looks it will be great . Will check it out over the next few days. Silverlight has 3 major versions in 18 months mmm , could it be the focus for MS ( with Azure) , kind of tempted to go this way rather than WPF to support other platforms a multiplatform MS ??
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EDAM -What is EDAM trying to do.
Just been working on EDAM ( my event driven architecture product) and wanted to note down and restate the long term goal (in addition to being a great eventing system).
The goal of EDAM is for people to be able to quickly add programs to the enterprise and to provide a fast event driven service to make this happen . Note i avoided the term framework as i want this to be usable with no dll linked though we will provide one later to make it even easier.
Remember when we used UNIX commands such as
cat file* | tr...
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Is software theory relevant
I just realized my main objection to heavy theoretical based development stems not from poor theory but in appropriate use.
I think it comes down to the original premise that 90% of a softwares lifetime budget is in maintenance . While this is certainly true for large scale mainframe applications or software vender apps ( eg IE , Word etc) it is not for the majority of small apps used today. I have seen many of these applications not change for 90% of their lifetime and when replaced they are replaced by the latest and greatest language /technology.
Here is...