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16 Is Your Next
Language COBOL?
Don’t count Cobol out. It’s a key element in modern distributed business software architectures.
by Michael Swaine

24 Safe Coding Practices
Gwyn examines several types of coding vulnerabilities and examines how you can mitigate the risk of exploit within your code.
by Gwyn Fisher

30 Code Signing in Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR requires that all AIR-based applications be signed for to secure delivery.
by Oliver Goldman

40 OpenID Single Sign-On
OpenID is an open standard that defines a way that web-based applications can authenticate users via a single identity.
by Jeremy Weiskotten

46 The Book Cipher Algorithm
The Book cipher algorithm uses letters of subsequent words in some text or book as a key to encode messages.
by Dejan Ristanovic and Jelica Protic

52 Indexing and Searching Image files
Lucene.NET is a high-performance text retrieval library that Adelene uses to index and search image files.
by Adelene Ng

56 Extending Continuous Integration Into ALM
Traditional Continuous Integration has been constrained so that it provides only a partial picture of software quality. Maciej suggests alternatives.
by Maciej Zawadzki

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