Dec 18, 2017

For an ostensibly forthrightly podcast, we only managed 10 episodes this year, of which one was a mini-solo cast from Mark, too many holidays and rock concerts getting in the way of recording. Hopefully we can be more organised in 2019!

• The years podcasts:
  • 145: Java 9 and The Case of the Automatic Module

Nov 23, 2017

• Broken builds, continuous integration, feature flags and deprecations?
• Maven Release And Sub-Directories- from Richard Vowles
• The Future is Now by Rachel White - Grinders and Biohacking
• Facebook Flow - Static Analyser for Javascript
• Java 10 builds are available
• Using JDK 10’s Local Variable Type Inference With...

Sep 17, 2017

• Severe security vulnerability found in Apache Struts using lgtm.com (CVE-2017-9805)
• XML? Be cautious!
• The Backdoor Threat

Java News

• Moving Java Forward - 6 month release cycle, breaking changes.  3 yearly LTS versions
• Java 9 will NOT be an LTS release
• Module Hell - java.ee not in base ( easy to fix, but ack )

Sep 10, 2017

A short minisode on Apache Struts, XML deserialisation attacks, and Equifax.

• XML? Be cautious!
• Severe security vulnerability found in Apache Struts using lgtm.com (CVE-2017-9805)
• CVE-2017-9805: Analysis of Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability in REST Plugin
• Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach
• Apache Struts...

Aug 27, 2017

Save 418 - I was hoping to actually shift the discussion of “Save 418” more towards the importance of specifications, and how ‘in the old days’ protocols/specs were king, as everything was reused and distributed - but now, it’s “the Twitter API” or “the Facebook API” — still, we managed an somewhat...