The Rietta Blog
04/01/2020
Snowfroc 2020 - Application Security and Development
by Chris Davis
Application security is important to an entire company, but what practical steps can we take on a development team to keep applications secure?
02/06/2020
Dependency Management and Security
by Chris Choi
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?
01/21/2020
A Newer Dev's Perspective on Learning OWASP
by Rob Stringer
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.
01/13/2020
AppSec as a Requirement in the Development Process
by Frank Rietta
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.
10/29/2019
Xfinity is Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attacking my Internet
by Alex Piechowski
Did you know that Xfinity regularly launches security attacks against it's own customers?
10/28/2019
Patch Production Faster with Security-oriented Agile Development Practices
by Frank Rietta
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.
10/24/2019
MySQL Decimal Data Type
by Alex Piechowski
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)".
10/22/2019
What is Web Accessibility?
by Christopher Choi
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.
10/07/2019
Acknowledge Open-Source Contributors with Git Authorship
by Alex Piechowski
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.
10/02/2019
The Clean-up Refactor Deleting ".arel_tables"
by Alex Piechowski
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.