An open challenge the UK technology industry should embrace
Surevine are members of Intellect, and we have been asked to contribute our feedback on the the Beta of the Government Digital Service’s Design Manual. In the spirit of Surevine’s model of “working in the open” I have chosen to … Continue reading
Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs Part II
I’ve received a teeny amount of “I agree, but…” feedback for last night’s posting; in this case from two fellow geeks whom I respect deeply. Their criticism – singular, shared – is this: There are times when having a WAF around can … Continue reading
Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs
Consider a computer or network that is protected by a “firewall”, there will be two basic ways to configure the firewall: blacklist, ie: everything is permitted except for these items whitelist, ie: everything is forbidden except for these items …oh, … Continue reading
Email and the curse of the carbon copy
One of the great things about working for Surevine is the careful avoidance of email. I know some of you are going to find that hard to understand or even imagine. But really, we don’t use email unless we really … Continue reading
A little Alfresco / Tesseract OCR integration
I attended Alfresco DevCon in Berlin this year (a fantastic event) and two of the sessions that really caught my eye were given by Neil McErlean and Andy Hunt about content transformations. I’d been playing around with an OCR tool called … Continue reading
Explosion in Need for Software
On Software development I read the other day that the honorary British citizen, Will.i.am, who performed at the Jubilee, carried an Olympic torch and tweeted through a prime time TV show has committed to become a software developer. I don’t … Continue reading
“A quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
There are two full floors of TechHub goodness at the Google Campus in London. One is studious and conducive to knowledge work. The other is like a nineties rave with music blaring from speakers, and people goofing off… …or perhaps … Continue reading
Licensing is so passé
I recently read an article titled “GitHub needs to take open source seriously” from InfoWorld, and it was all kicked off by this tweet: younger devs today are about POSS – Post open source software. f*** the license and governance, … Continue reading
The pains of cross frame scripting and GWT
We had a kind of niche case client requirement recently. The client has two (very) separate web applications deployed on their network. One a regular web app, the other a GWT based IM client. The interesting requirement was having the … Continue reading
