Federico Cargnelutti

Month: April 2008

  • A Painless Remote Projects Synchronization Utility

    So, there you are, asking yourself – “How the hell am I going to deploy my next application across multiple servers?”. First, you write some shell scripts. One that checks out the project from the repository and the other one that runs all the tests. Then, you master the synchronization technique and realise that combined…

  • Search your code for vulnerabilities

    I’m a big fan of PHP_CodeSniffer and I think it’s a great development tool, it ensures that you write code that is easy to read and maintain. But, what about making sure that the code you write is secure and doesn’t have any vulnerabilities? Right, there’s another tool for that… PHP Security Scanner is a…

  • Web Application Security Scanner

    Web security is possibly today’s most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization. Recent research shows that 75% of internet attacks are done at web application level. Web application security scanners ensure website security by automatically checking for SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other vulnerabilities. There are…

  • Software Engineering for Web Applications

    A twelve-year-old can build a nice Web application using the tools that came standard with any Linux or Windows machine. Thus it is worth asking ourselves, “What is challenging, interesting, and inspiring about Web-based applications?” This textbook written by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet for the MIT course “Software Engineering for Internet Applications”,…

  • CouchDB: A document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API

    CouchDB was accepted for incubation at the Apache Software Foundation a couple of months ago. My congrats to the development team! It’s a very interesting and challenging project, and the fact that it was accepted for incubation will definitely get the team exited. What is CouchDB? A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON…

  • An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect

    Ask yourself: What are my primary concerns and interests when making software? It is by answering this question that you’ll be able to define the distinction between software architecture and software development An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect

  • Building Scalable Development Environments

    One of my favourites ZendCon sessions, presented by Shahar Evron: “Building Scalable Development Environments”. Related links: Slides (PDF) Podcast (MP3)

  • Use-Case Analysis: Getting from use cases to code

    The first in a two-part series that appeared in The Rational Edge, this article presents a case study that analyses the requirements captured in use cases and transforms them into implementable representations that can be directly coded. An excellent article written by Gary Evans. Getting from use cases to code: Part 1: Use-Case Analysis Getting…

  • Top 10 Application Design Mistakes

    Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both. Once again usability expert Jakob Nielsen writes about common mistakes made by designers, front-end developers and information architects when designing user interfaces. Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes