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Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Management/config, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-25

JOS thread on DLL runtime vs compile time linking:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.334930.13


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: Refactoring code, Design considerations: Backward compatibility, Methodologies: Object Oriented, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-25

Ivan S Zapreev on DLL hell in Windows:
http://www.codeproject.com/dll/The_DLL_Hell.asp
...focussing mainly on C++ classes in DLLs


Development categories: Web, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Security, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-18

Top seven PHP security blunders.

http://www.sitepoint.com/print/php-security-blunders

...including XSS and SQL injection.



Security...


Development categories: Database, Processes: Language selection, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: ANY, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-18

Why SQL?

SQL considered as inefficient and insecure by its very nature. Why use SQL? Why not use something else?

My opinion and a poll at:

http://phpbb.blcss.com/viewtopic.php?p=53#53


Development categories: Database, Processes: Language selection, Dependencies: Third party components and APIs, Design considerations: Efficiency, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-18

Access vs. SQL Server disk consumption

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.329820.10

J.B.: "
I...


Development categories: ANY, Processes: Language selection, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: ANY, Methodologies: Object Oriented, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-18

What language to pick

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.327073.32



Development categories: ANY, Processes: Language selection, Dependencies: Third party components and APIs, Design considerations: Maintainability, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-04-18

Use .NET for shrinkwrap product?

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.326459.12

Smoothie: "I...


Development categories: Web, Processes: Language selection, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: ANY, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-03-15

Why AJAX instead of Java Applets? I posed the question and got some insightful replies at: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.312436.2


Development categories: Web, Processes: Toolset selection, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Security, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-03-15

FrontPage extensions: secure or not?

Here\'s a page describing the security model: http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/SERK/security.htm

Now...


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Design considerations: ANY, Methodologies: Prototyping, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-01-25

http://www.technicat.com/writing/programming.html

"There is a classical school of thought that believes if you design everything...


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Design considerations: Maintainability, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2006-01-19

test phpbb login tie-in


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Maintainability, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2005-12-12

Lame error messages. My thoughts and a poll at:

http://phpbb.blcss.com/viewtopic.php?p=10#10


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Usability, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2005-12-12

Lame error messages. My thoughts and a poll at:

http://phpbb.blcss.com/viewtopic.php?p=10#10


Don\'t scare away users. My thoughts and...


Development categories: GUI, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Usability, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2005-12-12

Popups are bad. My thoughts and a poll at:

http://phpbb.blcss.com/viewtopic.php?p=11#11


Development categories: ANY, Processes: ANY, Dependencies: ANY, Design considerations: Knowledge of audience, Methodologies: ANY, Team size: ANY
- by rowland on 2005-12-12

Don\'t scare away users. My thoughts and a poll at:

http://phpbb.blcss.com/viewtopic.php?p=12#12