April 2008 - Posts

• Bad Database Security

  Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:08 PM | 15 Comments
  
  

  The Daily WTF recently reported that the Sexual and Violent Offender Registry of Oklahoma had to shut down its website for 'routine maintenance'. It turns out that this routine maintenance was necessary because 10,597 social security numbers from sex Read More by Tony Davis | 15 Comments | Comment on this post

• The best and worst ways to optimize your code

  Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:55 PM | 11 Comments
  
  

  I was chatting to Phil Factor the other day about the slow start-up of some CLR applications. He started telling me, with apparent irrelevance, how he once, a long time ago, developed a database system in Z80 assembler code and a large eight-inch floppy Read More by Tony Davis | 11 Comments | Comment on this post

• That ain't a database, it's a spreadsheet!

  Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:21 AM | 4 Comments
  
  

  "That ain't a database, it's a spreadsheet!" From the Sayings of Phil Factor   There is a world of difference between an enterprise-level relational database and a 'repository of persistent data'. Until you've had the experience of dealing with Read More by Tony Davis | 4 Comments | Comment on this post