Category: Programming

How secure are the applications you’ve deployed to the Cloud ?

06/30/2020 by Mike Honner

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Last modified 06/30/2020

Cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Google and Azure are highly secure and comply with the strictest standards in infrastructure and software development practices, such as ISO 20001, PCI-DSS Level1 and HIPAA. So, what does that mean to an organization building and deploying their own software in the cloud? Not much. You are ensured that their infrastructure is secure not your software. This is what is …

C and Windows – Ouch!

05/26/2020 by Mike Honner

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Last modified 06/04/2020

I programmed in C for Windows in the late 90’s. C programming for windows was very difficult. I had inherited a large Cash Management and General Ledger system (200k + lines of code) from the previous team. That team had not been trained in C and their previous work was Cobol programming for an IBM mainframe. They were great programmers, but brought over the the …