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New Webkit Feature
Just noticed a new and important feature released with the latest nighty build of Webkit, namely, an option to check for updates automatically. Mozilla has had this feature in their browsers for a long time, and it was hard not having it available in Webkit. Just got used to downloading a new version every so [...]
Keyboard Shortcuts
Do you want to learn all of the keyboard shortcuts to your favorite Java IDE, but just don’t have time to study a cheat sheet? Are you envious of your team lead because when you peer program with them, they are able to get things done without using the mouse?
You ask your [...]
Simple Security for HTTP Based RESTful Services (Part 2)
In part one of this series, we examined one potential solution that turned out to be not so good. In this post lets try to find a solution using the same design, but a better implementation.
To recap, we decided to use the simplest solution which is to add a security hash to each service [...]
Simple Security for HTTP Based RESTful Services (Part 1)
This is going to be the first in a series of posts discussing potential ways of securing bi-directional RESTful based HTTP services. For this series we are going to make the requirements quite simple, namely, “secure” simply means the caller of the service is authorized to invoke it. Lets assume that this solution [...]



