Web logins will be dead
[en] Scribbles	rant, software, development, c3, 2010-02-03

Just read the interesting if somewhat abusive http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/02/subscriptions-are-the-new-black.html article. This tiggered me on the idea that people have problems keeping all those passwords for each site. And many sites could do perfectly without. Thanks to openId and OAuth. Still wrapping my head around the latter, but it sure is interesting! I guess it will take a decade before lagging web-sites+developers wake up to these techniques... but.. hey... that's a given.

Bootstrapping Users in Alfresco
[en] Scribbles	alfresco, sose, development, 2009-03-03

Just posted a decent fix for bootstrapping users in Alfresco. I posted it to the forums for better visibility by the Alfresco community.

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14352

I hope this helps someone not spend an inordinate amount of time to do something that should be properly documented in the first place!

Sans top 25 dangerous programming errors.
[en] Scribbles	sose, security, development, 2009-02-12

[I didn't blog about this since I assumed most people would grab these headlines, but since i found a few inteligent people not having heard about them, I'd rather help spread the word...]

A few weeks back the SANS institute published a compilation of the top 25 most dangerous errors developers can make.

http://www.sans.org/top25errors/

It was compiled by a long list of corporate hot-shots but is mostly a good listing of proper common sense. Most code reviews would catch these things.... Hmmm... code reviews.. now there is a novelty!...

Of course the big software pushers are going to try to sell you semi-automated tools for detecting+fixing the stuff.  Also expect new empty marketing BS like "SANS25 verified" on software. But such is the state of IT.