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Sun, Jan 6 2008 12:16 AM

The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference

When looking to the Stored Proscedures debate, there is always those three factors you should measure by. Productivity - Span code base over multiple staging environments is a pain and harder to maintain. - Versioning sp code is way harder than versioning...
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Fri, Oct 12 2007 5:21 AM

Tiny Tip: Improve Security with InternalsVisibleTo Attribute

In projects that span over multiple teams and for other very reasonable architecture reasons you end up with multiple assembles for your current project or even if you want to reuse a library one of the other teams wrote you will find yourself using code...
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Tue, Jul 17 2007 2:58 PM

Security Tip

Hi folks, When you design your sophisticated "Change Password" feature in your next application make sure to retain the old password so the user can't re-choose them anymore.. You can keep a history of passwords and don't allow to use...
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Wed, Feb 28 2007 1:36 PM

OpenID anti-phishing technique

If you are using OpenID i strongly recommend that you use this little feature which is allow you to upload an icon or personal picture to display it in the verification site (myopenid.com) title bar so if you didn't see this picture theres a chance that...
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Fri, Feb 16 2007 8:01 PM

OpenID and all the hassle goes away

Hi Mates, i'm really exited with this identity model which was around since 2005 but maybe the commercial suppory by ViriSign and others what brings it to the surface anyway.. i'm not in the place of comparing OpenID to CardSpace or any other existed...
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Thu, Feb 15 2007 2:39 AM

Nasty joke, Security by sense

Couple of days ago i have received this mail from one of my former colleagues the email goes like "This is a love calculator that you will supply it with three of your secret lovers and your name and it will tell you which one is THE ONE". So as we approaching...
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Tue, Feb 6 2007 12:14 AM

Custom Mempership Provider for preventing DoS

Hours ago i had a chance to attend for one of my favorites speakers who always speak at Middle East Developer Conference, my list of great speaker include more world first class speaker.. which is a subject i will talk about more later. The speaker for...
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Tue, Dec 12 2006 1:31 PM

In Your face 2 - Vista Protected Mode, IE7, IE6.x way secure than FF,Opera and Flash Player

This is the seconed episode of IN YOUR FACE this time, Donna has just posted about a little test she did with some security scanners like BigFix to discover that from over than 44,000 program inspectors discoverd 35% insecure versions. just pointing out...
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Wed, Nov 29 2006 8:02 PM

In your face - SQL Server 2005 security flaws since release = 0

Usualy Oracle known as the most secure database since decade but this truth is now changed in dramatic way. The two graphs above show the number of security flaws in the Oracle and Microsoft database servers that have been discovered and fixed since December...
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