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Software-Technology

How to Break Web Software: Functional & Security Testing of Web Applications & Web Services

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

This almost 20-year-old book describes the then-most common weaknesses of Internet software. Although some of the referenced technologies are outdated, a majority of the principles are still relevant in 2025. SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and the need to sanitize input parameters remain hot issues in web security for developers. Other items bring eye rolls to developers who have been around the bush – Internet Explorer, to name one. Although this book isn’t going to suddenly…

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React and React Native

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

To enhance its social media software, Facebook commissioned a JavaScript framework that makes clicking around on a website much more pleasureful for users. Instead of waiting for web servers to respond, the content requests are handled in the background and rendered by JavaScript on the client’s computer. This framework, called React, has become one of the leading UI frameworks available for web development today, along with Vue.js. This book introduces React.js and gets developers up-to-speed…

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Web Security for Developers: Real Threats, Practical Defense

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

Much has been and continues to be written on the topic of computer security, but a lot of that content is directed towards computer security professionals. Few resources exist that are written for software developers, by developers. In this work, McDonald seeks to answer the need for a comprehensive exposition on this topic. In this attempt, he succeeds in providing a clear and thorough introduction of what developers need to know about security. The biggest…

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The Vue Handbook

By Scott J. Pearson | by Scott J. Pearson

Vue is a popular software programming package based off of JavaScript. It is an add-on that makes a client’s web browser to all sorts of fun and useful things. Through using templating and a centralized API, it can help create fast user interfaces on the web. It’s more-or-less a competitor with other JavaScript libraries like React. Vue functions as a templating engine in JavaScript. That means that it is a client-side templating engine (in your…

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