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Yearly Archives: 2006

Applications that Grow Organically

By Dick Weisinger

A key advantage of web-based architectures over client/server is the fact that the application resides on the server.  Centralized application management means that updates, patches and enhancements can be made on the server without having to re-deploy client software across…

An SOA framework for ECM

By Dick Weisinger

ECM services can provide an important component to any SOA framework. The past few years has seen an enormous amount of enthusiasm generated around SOA — Service Oriented Architectures.  Clearly while the hype has been high, there really is a…

AJAX — a one year anniversary

By Dick Weisinger

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary since Jesse James Garrett at Adaptive Paths first coined the term AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).  It was a term he created to describe some of the high-profile highly-interactive Javascript browser applications, like Google‘s…

Web site scanning for vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

By one estimate more than 50-60% of all Web applications and web sites contain some critical vulnerability that can be easily compromised. Using SSL, firewalls and locked-down servers can lead to a sense of security, but none of these things…

Engineering Hybrid Documents

By Dick Weisinger

The last entry discussed CAD file viewers that enable any user to view the CAD model data created from applications in the original file format. Another twist when working with CAD documents is that not only is the underlying data…