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The Big Facebook Fail

When the Facebook developer Platform was first announced, thoughts of brilliant applications using Facebook’s amazing viral marketing ability was all I could think about. It was touted as an online revolution. Colleges ran classes on developing Facebook applications and every Tom, Dick and Harry had a play around with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) - myself […]

Java RMI Client Authentication

Security is painful. My attempts to make our applet that is using RMI use SSL as well have absolutely done my head in.
First there was the fact that a self signed certificate wouldn’t do. This wasn’t a big surprise, but it wouldn’t even allow me to test my app to ensure it was working before […]