Did you hear the one about a warehouse-direct discount site that is built as a single-page application? They claim they save you money by cutting out the middleware.
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WebLogic Server, Apache Commons and You
Oracle released Security Alert CVE-2015-4852 last night, their official security response to a much-publicized vulnerability with certain usage of the Apache Commons library with the major J2EE application servers.
If you have access to the Oracle Support Network, the best reference is https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2076338.1.
For an Apache POV of the situation, I suggest https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_commons_statement_to_widespread.
Infoworld has a calmer dissertation of the issue at http://www.infoworld.com/article/3003197/security/library-misuse-exposes-leading-java-platforms-to-attack.html.
I personally heard about this first from /., where this is an informative thread (with the usual trolling between) at http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/11/08/0346258/vulnerability-in-java-commons-library-leads-to-hundreds-of-insecure-applications.
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Linux Find Modified and Not Hidden
Recovering Previous Versions from SharePoint
A few weeks ago I discovered that other people had mistakenly made changes to a draft of a technical document I was storing in SharePoint for which I had sole responsibility for. At the time we did not know how to access earlier versions of the document and I had to painstakingly review the entire draft and re-verify every detail.
Today I needed to compare revisions of a document that was stored in SharePoint with updates made on another machine. When I went to compare tab in this SharePoint managed document, I discovered how to find earlier versions!
Under the Review menu in Word, the Compare section has additional options for documents stored in SharePoint:
From here you can find the versions SharePoint has stored
And, once I knew what to look for, finding the Microsoft documentation was easy 🙂
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