Jim Murphy - Mindreef, Inc.Jim MurphyXML Security - Am I an idiot or what- July 30, 2004 I've written plenty of low level network applications and even a high performance XML webservice, but I've never really gotten my hands dirty with XML security. I've "read quite a bit on the subject and what I've read has simply scared the hell out of me. I consider myself a pretty capable software...http://www.mindreef.com/people/jimmurphy/weblog/index/P220/ Typeelement substitutions...arggghhh- July 30, 2004 Tim Ewald's post on type substitution summarized very nicely where I was going when I started this blog (what feels like eons ago). I was trying to setup this point from the perspective of a typical OO programmer new to web services. Type substitution, especially in responses, is an incredibly natural thing to want to do if you're a code monkey like me. But, there be dragons as Tim describes....http://www.mindreef.com/people/jimmurphy/weblog/index/P219/ RSS, email and SPAM...again.- July 13, 2004 There was a flurry of discussion around RSS replacing email about a year ago now - at least and it seems to have died down a bit. Many reputable folks weren't buying it. Which, of course, has made this idea fester in the back of my mind ever since. The popular opinion seems to be that replacing good ol' simpty' (SMTP) with a whitelist based RSS subscription system would hardly seem like a way forward....http://www.mindreef.com/people/jimmurphy/weblog/index/P218/ |