I’ve just been to a very interesting BOF by Ludovic Champenois at JavaOne about the new PHP support in NetBeans. The talk was in the context of the new OpenSolaris WebStack so some time was spent on this, including the unique DTrace functionality which looks neat, but I found the NetBeans demo the most interesting. NetBeans has great support for Ruby and JavaScript and now PHP is starting to get some of that goodness too. […]
This was a popular session. The queue stretched down the hall, out the front door and around the block. It covered the main vulnerabilities bad guys exploit to attack websites. It was a good session given by Joe Walker who also gave the BOF on Comet. First up was cross-site request forgery or CSRF. This is basically misusing people’s cookies. For example if a user is logged in to bank.com on one tab and then […]
I attended a session by Bill Pugh (although sometimes it seemed more like a TB ward with all the coughing and sneezing going on) about using FindBugs on large code bases. FindBugs is a static analysis tool that analyses your class files without executing the program. Some people don’t think it should be needed but smart programmers still make dumb mistakes and FindBugs can catch these. FindBugs can scale to very large code bases; Google […]
Tonight I went to a very interesting BOF given by Alex Russell and Joe Walker about Comet. Also known as ‘Reverse Ajax’, Comet is a way of implementing ‘push’ technology in the browser. Basically, it is just long-lived or delayed-response HTTP connections; so a client will open an HTTP connection and then this is kept open to push data to the client. It is needed because now that many sites use Ajax it means page […]
I saw a great talk about jMaki which looks like an awesome lightweight framework to easily integrate ajax into your apps. It wraps common ajax libraries like jQuery, Dojo, etc. It uses the familiar convention over configuration to make things quick to develop and has multiple server-side language support, for example, PHP, JSP and Ruby. It also supplies an xml http proxy to interact with services outside of your domain. A jMaki wiget is a […]
Today was the first day of JavaOne proper and it was packed! There are so many people here! I arrived for breakfast at about 8am and already a queue was forming for the opening keynote general session. By the time I joined the end of it it had stretched the length of the Moscone Center. When I got inside the massive hall it was more like a rock concert. Loud music was pumping and some […]