Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Dev news digest for January 8, 2013


"Please Login to Your Facebook Account" - Behind a Data Mining Scam

Emails asking you to login to your facebook account can turn out to be pointing to phishing sites. They often your shortened links like http://bit.ly/10PMe. The site URL would look very similar to authentic site but with small difference like facebooURk.com






The User Interface has some representation of the data input by the user, it gets copied over into some kind of transport object (often suffixed TO (Arrrrgh)), which then gets copied over into the domain representation of the data, and finally gets copied over into the persistence representation.

That’s a lot of copying. Not good. In many cases this is just waste.
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There are cases where you need to do some copying. For example when you transfer data between layers that are physically separate you have to serialize and deserialize them.





NoSQLUnit is a JUnit extension to make writing unit and integration tests of systems that use NoSQL backend easier.





In recent years, there's been an increasing amount of talk about the advantages of schemaless data. Being schemaless is one of the main reasons for interest in NoSQL databases. But there are many subtleties involved in schemalessness, both with respect to databases and in-memory data structures. These subtleties are present both in the meaning of schemaless and in the advantages and disadvantages of using a schemaless approach. 



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