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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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WordPress WassUp Error

Iulian Margarintescu — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:26:34 +0000

I\'ve upgraded the wassup plugin to the latest version ( 1.5 ) and an error started to show in the pages: [ wp_wassup_tmp\' doesn\'t exist ] The solution is to deactivate the plugin and then reactivate it... witch should be the right way to upgrade your plugins. read full article

ASP.NET 2.0 and SQLServer 2000 Transactions

Iulian Margarintescu — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:21:11 +0000

The new ADO.NET 2.0 and it's typed datasets and table adapters are very useful tools for creating a DAL in you application. Still when working with SQLServer 2000 implementing transactions is a bit tricky. 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