Don't post your log on screen @ web page

Programmers love to display log on their working page while developing the page. And normally, when they release the page or site, there are always pages that they forgot to disable of remove the log. When this happen, they are actually opening a small window to cyber threat @ hackers.

Take for example or a website below (click to enlarge)

The site show the IP address, the type of database and the path use for the database connection. Now, this may be good for programmer, but it is security loopholes that shall and can be easily avoided.

As an advice to programmers, if you need to log, PLEASE do log on a file which shall be truncated/replace (configured) not more than a week.

p/s: I'm also programmer with security interest :)

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Project Management: Agile Methodology - Don't over do it!

I used to old and traditional ways of managing project via the known SDLC methodology for instance; waterfall and iterative model. It is so simple and ease me in managing project for the past 15 years. I got used to it and reluctant to change until was forced to do so for past few years.

I was requested to study, analyse and simplified Agile Methodology to be used by newbies in Project Management.

A bit tough for me since I'm not a PMP certified or pure project manager (despite doing that for the last 5 years). After going through many sites and sample, here I believed the most simplified and easy to used (but I feel that it can be simplified further for new project manager whom need to deliver and learn at the same time in a short time frame).

Thanks to Artem Marchenko @ Agile Software Development for the sample shared. You can get it from the site or here.


References:

1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2006/01/12/511845.aspx
2. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997897.aspx
3. http://yuvalyeret.com/2011/11/16/my-favorite-excel-based-agile-backlog-templates/
4. http://www.roberthalf.com/technology/blog/6-basic-sdlc-methodologies-the-pros-and-cons
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
6. http://agilemethodology.org/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle
8. http://www.pmi.org/About-Us/About-Us-What-is-Project-Management.aspx
9. http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/2006/11/scrum-backlog-templates-and-examples
10. http://www.odd-e.com/home_page/html_files/bl_example.html
11. http://www.odd-e.com/home_page/html_files/bl_templates.html
12. http://blog.crisp.se/2007/12/18/henrikkniberg/1197973740000
13. http://www.djaa.com/

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