22nd July 2006 Archive
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Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
'These guys are using fuzzing tools and producing a large number of bugs'
For most of the summer, Microsoft's Office product teams have had little time for development. Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the company's Office productivity suite has occupied many of Microsoft's programmers since late 2005. So far this year, the software giant has detailed at least 24 Office flaws found by outside …
Security 22 Jul 2006, 08:02
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On data models, data types and dangerous liaisons
Comment Context, dear boy, context
A data model is a methodology for storing, handling and manipulating data. There are lots of them around. One of the most commonly employed at present is the relational model. Brainchild of Edgar Codd, it rapidly came into favour after he published his seminal paper in 1970. Many of the popular database engines today (for …
Developer 22 Jul 2006, 11:02
