========================================================= ----- PETER COFFEE'S ENTERPRISE IT ADVANTAGE ----- ========================================================= A weekly newsletter from eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee focused on application development and technologies at the cutting edge of enterprise-class computing.
========================================================= Sponsored by St Bernard Block Spyware and Malware with iPrism iPrism from St. Bernard, which gives you a true appliance solution requiring no extra hardware or software, now adds spyware, malware and phishing to its exclusive perimeter defense database. With updates to your database sent daily, you are assured of thousands of new sites being blocked automatically by our iGuard Internet analysis team. In addition, the superior interoperability of iPrism means a seamless interface on any network. Learn more about the advantages of a hardware solution and download five FREE tools today! http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162909-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= December 27, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= PETER COFFEE: Systems Must Be Designed to Doubt EWEEK NEWS: 1. News: Apache Pulls the Plug on Avalon 2. News: Eclipse Refreshes Platform for Test, Performance Tools 3. News: CA Joins Eclipse Foundation 4. News: Kenai Launches Web Services Security Tool 5. News: Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP Servers ========================================================= PETER COFFEE ========================================================= Systems Must Be Designed to Doubt Sensors, business rules and cultivated paranoia yield customer-facing apps that can cope with unfortunate events. by Peter Coffee My son looked at the minuscule trunk of the rental car, then at our stack of luggage--made larger than usual by an extra suitcase full of Christmas gifts, on their way to their place below the tree at his grandparents' house. Politely, but firmly, he said, "No way, Dad." And something was clearly wrong, because I knew that I'd reserved a bigger car than this. As it turned out, our car was actually in space A-3, not in C-3 where we'd been directed. "Sorry, sir, the system had it wrong," the clerk apologized when I brought the problem to his attention. We got the right size car, but I wondered what would have happened if I'd taken the smaller one without question or comment: Would the guard at the gate have seen that the license plate number wasn't the one on my contract? Or would he merely have confirmed that the contract was valid, and that the signature on it matched the one on my driver's license? And that the photo on the license matched my face? Would he have gone through most of the motions of assurance, while missing a crucial connection between promise and fulfillment? It seems to me that this is still the all-important question for the designers of customer-facing systems, and there's nothing like the press of holiday travel and online shopping workloads to reveal the gaps that still remain to be closed. Read the rest of Peter's article here. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162912-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= EWEEK NEWS ========================================================= 1. News: Apache Pulls the Plug on Avalon The Apache Software Foundation has shut down its top-level Avalon project in favor of four targeted sub-projects. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162915-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Eclipse Refreshes Platform for Test, Performance Tools The foundation readies Eclipse TPTP Project release 3.2, which delivers a platform for building software test and performance tools that are used throughout the application life cycle. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162918-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: CA Joins Eclipse Foundation The company is tapped to lead the group's open-source testing platform project. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162921-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: Kenai Launches Web Services Security Tool Its ExamineST Web services security tool provides vulnerability assessment to test for security problems with Web services at their development phase. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162924-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP Servers Malware authors on Christmas day left dubious "gift" packages in e-mailboxes across the Internet. Fresh attacks, which took advantage of old Internet Explorer bugs, as well as new versions of the Santy worm fouled the holidays for some Windows users and PHP server admins. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162927-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= Job Search http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162930-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= The Channel Insider http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162933-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= DevSource http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162936-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= eNewsletter Information ========================================================= You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162939-0-0-0-1&[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your HTML/text preferences, change your e-mail address or subscribe to other eNewsletters from Ziff Davis Media, click here: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1464-6-81-214274-162942-0-0-0-1 Questions about your newsletter subscriptions? 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