I didn't feel the article was *that* badly written, but there was definitely a bit of "linux or the highway" to it, and in a misguided effort to spread the butthurt around a little more evenly, let me ...

(1) A server on the Web that supports a security protocol, which is typically SSL. Order forms with credit card numbers and other sensitive data transmitted to and from a Web server must be encrypted ...

Securing Web services is easy: All you have to do is secure your Web server, secure every message flowing in and out of your server, secure every application that has anything to do with SOAP and XML, ...

The open source Apache Web server is by far the most popular Web server in the world. According to Netcraft Ltd.’s December 2005 survey, nearly 70 percent of the developers they surveyed said they ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. Since a single ...

Installing and maintaining a secure web server on Linux can be a challenge. It requires in-depth knowledge of Linux, Apache, and PHP server-side options. One of the main problems is to find the ...

Editors' Note: The following is a chapter from the book Multitool Linux, written by Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson, Peter Curtis and Steven Murphy. The chapter presented here was written by their ...

The biggest challenge for any developer is testing the software they’ve written. Testing becomes more difficult when you build something for mobile or a platform different than yours. Mostly, ...