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Context Matters

Iulian Margarintescu — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:02:52 +0000

The next paragraph made me remember of a lot of hours of discussions with various developers:

If you’re arguing with me that NHibernate is the wrong tool because you’re writing reporting applications, just say “I write reporting applications.” And when I say “I think NHibernate is the best tool for persisting domain models,” I should probably talk about that specific context. And definitely, when you say “Linq to Sql rocks!”

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Life with g++

Iulian Margarintescu — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:37:38 +0000

The intention of this article is to show a few useful ( i hope ) tips about using g++ in the every day development cycle. Also this article describes three build configurations that should help the developer catch bugs in the early stages of development. read full article

Qt4 Synchronous HTTP Request

Iulian Margarintescu — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:13:00 +0000

Problem

Creating a wrapper over QHttp that can perform GET and POST requests in a synchronous way. read full article

Web application security flows

Iulian Margarintescu — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:07:06 +0000

Here goes... my first security related post :)

Intro

First i must say that this will not be a way to prove that your application is secure, it will only be a quick & dirty way of finding common bugs in web applications. The following will be a few techniques that i tend to use the first time i see an web application ( and generally a database application ). I will use PHP for the few code examples but the vulnerabilities presented are not limited to PHP, in fact are independent of the server-side programming language used. read full article