Federico Cargnelutti

Category: Tools

  • Use a Web-based terminal for remote administration tasks

    Ajaxterm offers a simple solution to those who want to run a terminal over the Web for performing remote administration tasks. Vincent Danen tells you how to get it and configure it for Apache.

  • ScrumWorks: Agile Process Automation Tool

    What does Google, Sun Microsystems, HP, Amazon, Oracle and Motorola have in common? They all use ScrumWorks, an Agile process automation tool that enables teams to self-organize and maximize productivity. Sun Microsystems: “The best compliment I can give to ScrumWorks is that my staff doesn’t think about it. It is intuitive and respectful of the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Issue Tracker extension for MediaWiki

    MediaWiki is definitely one of the most widely used and best known Wikis out there, it powers Wikipedia.com, but I’m sure you already knew that. I’ve been using it at work to record and document all our internal systems and projects. It’s a great tool, it allows developers and projects managers to collaborate, provide and…

  • Debugging Web Services

    SoapUI is a free and open source desktop application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers providing and/or consuming web services. Functional and Load-Testing can be done both interactively in soapUI or within an automated build/integration process using the soapUI command-line tools. Mock…

  • Enterprise Architect – UML Design Tool

    I’ve used a lot of UML design tools like Visio, Poseidon and a couple others. But recently I’ve had the opportunity to use Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) Professional, a very good tool. Has round-trip code engineering for PHP, plug-ins for eclipse and tons more for only £115! From the author: “Enterprise Architect combines the power…