Tag Archives: software development

SQL Injection Is Not Acceptable

Posted on June 19, 2024 by way0utwest

SQL Injection has been a problem for my entire career. Thirty years ago I could have easily just blamed this on ignorance, as most of our developers didn’t think about the nefarious ways that hackers enter data in our applications. … Continue reading →

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Common Algorithm Concerns

Posted on May 29, 2024 by way0utwest

When we build software, many of us use the same algorithms to solve problems. We might choose a similar method for a quicksort or a lambda validation or a regular expression. For database work, your code for a running total … Continue reading →

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The Code Freeze

Posted on April 10, 2024 by way0utwest

One of the ideas behind DevOps is that we minimize the time between code commit and deployment to production. We want to avoid work-in-progress and bottlenecks to getting our software into the hands of customers. This has led a lot … Continue reading →

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Re-platforming

Posted on March 20, 2024 by way0utwest

Re-platforming is the process of moving a system to a new platform. Imagine taking an ASP.NET/SQL Server website and moving to Azure Functions on Azure SQL Database. Or maybe taking a Java client/server app with Oracle and moving it to … Continue reading →

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