A serious vulnerability in SSL v3 and previous versions of SSL protocol has been identified and made public on November 4, 2009. This makes every SSL site vulnerable to serious man-in-middle (MITM) attacks related to renegotiation. This vulnerability is due to the design of "session resumption" feature of SSL protocol.

Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as “NoSQL databases.” The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads. There are three specific problem areas: scaling out to data sets like Digg’s (3 TB for green badges) or Facebook’s (50 TB for inbox search) or eBay’s (2 PB overall), per-server performance, and rigid schema design.

Typography is perhaps the most important part of design. It makes text into art and changes the way we look at design. I have compiled a list of the free fonts which I believe to be the sexiest!

I am a big fan of Uncle Bob and I think he is a master of object-oriented programming and architecture. However, in my opinion his Bowling Game kata (solution for the bowling game scoring problem) it's not the right example to explain design via Test-Driven Development.

call_user_func_array allows you to call a user function given with an array of parameters. Basically we may use this function to mimic some code that many of us write on a daily basis.

Job searching can be tough enough all by itself. There is no need to make it even harder by doing or saying the wrong thing when job searching or interviewing.

As a professional recruiter, and a hiring manager, I’ve participated in hundreds of interviews over the years.

I’d say 9 out of 10 project folders are a complete mess. The only people finding anything in these structures are the ones who put it there in the first place. Why is it so difficult to find anything in most of these trees? And how can we make it more easy?