We tend to associate security with specific technologies–encryption, VPNs, authentication protocols, but no single technology guarantees security; attacks come from many different directions and target the least suspected of vulnerabilities. We need to make our best effort to ensure comprehensive protection.…
The foundation of trust upon which all web commerce depends begins with the browser. The browser trusts certificate authorities (CAs) and certificate authorities vouch for the identities of businesses. This system of public key infrastructure (PKI), however, is only as…
As an experiment, please take a moment to type your bank’s URL into a browser. If you are anything like the vast majority of users, you wrote the URL without specifying the protocol scheme, that is you typed mybank.com rather…
The Web Application Security Working Group of the W3C has created a standard for web security called Content Security Policy (CSP). Currently on version two with a version three in the works, CSP has been implemented by the majority of…
The frequent pairing of Single Page Applications and RESTful APIs goes well beyond the fact that both have become popular buzzwords. While the architectural styles of REST and Single Page Applications (SPAs) do not depend on each other in principle,…
Dust.js is a powerful JavaScript templating framework, currently maintained by LinkedIn, that can function both in the browser and server-side. At the moment, I’m working on an introductory presentation on Dust.js for the Silicon Valley Code Camp. And as I…
After recently studying and playing with Node.js, I realized that I had somehow picked up a couple of misperceptions that were wildly off base: Node.js is solely a platform for web development similar to one of the other popular server-side…
At last night’s Front End Developers United meetup in Mountain View, Jeff Harrell of PayPal and Veena Basavaraj of LinkedIn spoke about the use of Dust.js within their organizations. LinkedIn and PayPal chose Dust.js from among the many JavaScript templating…
During the recent CouchConf in San Francisco, Frank Weigel, a Couchbase product manager, touted the benefits of schemaless databases: without a schema, developers may add fields without going through a DBA. The audience of developers seemed pleased, but I wondered…
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