Viewing the complete source code and stealing passwords from Websites with PHP-CGI based setups

Viewing the complete  source code and stealing passwords from  Websites   with PHP-CGI based  setups Websites Running on PHP-CGI based setup are completely vulnerable to   Remote Code execution.While parsing query string Parameters from a php file, The PHP-CGI based setups are ending up executing command line switches on their servers.  An user can simply run a [...]

My First Pair Programming Experience- It takes two to tango!!

Yesterday evening, while travelling back to home from office, going over the day’s activities, my wandering mind was struck with a thought- Pair Programming proclaims to help us improve not only as a developer but as a craftsman. I have been practicing Pair Programming now for quite some time at Xebia, has it really lived [...]

Experiencing Spring Integration with Iwein Fuld

Place : Xebia India, gurgaon Day 1: 17 Nov, 2010 This morning, I was going to attend Spring Integration training by no other than the guru himself, Iwein Fuld. I was definitely excited. I entered the training location to find close to 15 people in the room, we were supposed to sit in groups of [...]

Architecture Terminologies – An Introduction

At times I was involved in discussions where people of top brass where also present. I was having (and still have) little experience compared to them. I used to hear lots of terms which clearly and smoothly surpassed my head. I was at times amazed by listening about friction, surface area and all in software [...]

JBoss Migration

Recently, at Xebia, Rocky Jaiswal, Pallavi Jain , Megha Jain and myself  did the migration of an application, JMSConsole, running on WebLogic 8.1.4 to JBoss 5.1. In this article we have shared some of the findings on the same. The details of the JMSConsole application and the migration exercise have been captured in the clipping. [...]