The Rietta Blog
Snowfroc 2020 - Application Security and Development
— 2020-04-01
Application security is important to an entire company, but what practical steps can we take on a development team to keep applications secure?
Dependency Management and Security
— 2020-02-06
Security conscious developers can avoid security pitfalls in their own code, but what about the code that the developer did not write but is using?
A Newer Dev's Perspective on Learning OWASP
— 2020-01-21
Why I'm learning Application Security as a blooming developer, and why other new programmers should consider it too! An overview of AppSec for beginners.
AppSec as a Requirement in the Development Process
— 2020-01-13
A prediction that web application security will not be a post-development plugin you can add to your application in the decade of 2020-2030 and what you can do about it.
Xfinity is Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attacking my Internet
— 2019-10-29
Did you know that Xfinity regularly launches security attacks against it's own customers?
Patch Production Faster with Security-oriented Agile Development Practices
— 2019-10-28
Companies take too long to patch production leaving plenty of time for threats to attack! Here's how to fix it with security-oriented Agile practices.
MySQL Decimal Data Type
— 2019-10-24
The MySQL decimal (A.K.A. numeric) data type can be used to store the exact numerical value with a fixed point decimal. The Syntax of MySQL's decimal is "DECIMAL(precision, scale)".
What is Web Accessibility?
— 2019-10-22
It's important to answer the demand for accessible websites to proactively avoid legal implications after the Supreme Court declined to hear the Domino's Pizza appeal in an ADA case.
Acknowledge Open-Source Contributors with Git Authorship
— 2019-10-07
Even though Git has been the dominant VCS for over a decade, some popular open-source projects don't properly accredit contributors. Open-source projects have a ethical obligation to properly portray the work that was done to the project.
The Clean-up Refactor Deleting ".arel_tables"
— 2019-10-02
Composing queries with ActiveRecord and .arel_tables[] to select individual columns results in long lines. By delegating `arel_tables[] to .[], queries have a more readable interface without losing context. Delete .arel_tables from all usages; gain sanity dealing with complex queries.