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The Problem(s) with the Browser
Collin Jackson discusses ways to enforce browser session security against threats such as Cross-Site Request Forgery and various network attacks by using Local Storage and Strict Transport Security.
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Clojure-Java Interop: A Better Java than Java
Stuart Dabbs Halloway reviews Clojure’s syntax and explains how Clojure-Java interop works. He then talks about simplicity, attempting to prove that Clojure is a simpler and better language than Java.
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SOA Threat Modeling: Attacking and Defending REST, XML and SOAP-based Services
Jason Macy details the basic requirements for security testing and SOA gateway, attack examples and countermeasures to protect against SQL Injection, DoS, XSD Mutation, and Identity type of attacks.
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How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!
Guy L. Steele Jr. believes that programmers should not think about parallelism, but languages should provide ways to transparently run tasks in parallel by supporting independence-based constructs.
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Modern SOA Infrastructure and Open Source
Mark Little presents the constituents of a modern SOI and where open source implementations stand in terms of standards, tools, ease of use, performance and reliability.
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Groovy Update: To Infinity and Beyond!
Guillaume Laforge reviews the main Groovy 1.6 and 1.7 features, and what’s coming in Groovy 1.8: closures, modularization, Java 7 support, DSL, AST templates, better performance.
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Using Erlang in a Carrier-Grade Media Distribution Switch
Steve Vinoski talks on how Erlang is used in a media distribution switch to control the video stream flow at speeds up to 200Gb/s and handling tens of thousands of open HTTP connections.
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The Role of Hypermedia and the Future of Web Integration
Guilherme Silveira considers that RESTful web services need to make use of hypermedia in order to be prepared for web integration. He shows how links can be used to create more decoupled services.
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Introduction to Spring Security 3/3.1
Mike Wiesner demoes using Spring Security 3 with its new features, such as expression language-based authorization and extensions, to implement authentication and authorization in Java applications.
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Mobile HTML 5.0
Michael Galpin covers developing mobile web apps, HTML 5, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Web Sockets, server-side data push, Canvas, CSS3, application cache, video/audio, and mobile platform feature support.
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Introduction to Spring Roo
Rod Johnson and Stefan Schmidt introduce Spring Roo, building a sample app, unit and integration tests, AspectJ utilization, dependency injection, controller/view generation and GWT integration.
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NoSQL at Twitter
Kevin Weil presents how Twitter does data analysis using Scribe for logging, base analysis with Pig/Hadoop, and specialized data analysis with HBase, Cassandra, and FlockDB.