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Commercial Agile and DevOps best practices now available to Federal Agencies Fairfax, VA., March 1, 2016 — Coveros, the market leader in secure software development using agile methods, announced today that it has been awarded an Information Technology Schedule 70 Contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). IT Schedule 70 is the largest and […]
For automation, we want to store as much text as possible in our git repositories, and any binary artifacts in an artifact repository (like Sonatype’s nexus). However, Git can be a dangerous place to ever store passwords. If a bad guy ever acquired access, he could roll back in time and find every password you’ve ever stored […]
I recently was put on a project where we are doing development for a website. There was already a large code, and we went in to add features in order to complete the site, and perform code refactoring when necessary. In order to accomplish this successfully, we decided to follow the SecureAgileTM, which involves ensuring […]
Problem with Default Validation While using Laravel to build a web application, I needed to perform custom validation on user input, such as a password parameter. By default, Laravel manages this through AJAX handled on the client side. However, I wanted a more robust solution. Also, helpful libraries, such as a check of whether an […]
As an academic adventure, a few of us at Coveros decided to come up with a toy software development project we could do to learn more about programming in C# while doing something fun and different. We voted, then two of us ram-rodded our choice down everyone else’s throats and decided on building a game […]
On one of my projects, I was tasked with building an application package with Gulp. This is a useful tool to compile and organize files as needed, and integrates well with the Laravel framework, another great tool for building applications. Installation Beyond Laravel Documentation However, the website’s documentation on the Laravel site to merge Gulp […]
It’s that time of year, new year, new SecureCI release! 2015 ended well, with Coveros releasing a much more robust version of SecureCI. Not too many new features, but lots of bug fixes and some major upgrades of the application. This release focused on updating core components to latest release versions, correcting critical defects, and […]
Hi all, Just gave an internal talk to the folks at Coveros yesterday on why I love Vim, and how I learned to love it. A recording of this talk might be available? I’m not sure. The thesis of this talk is that Vim provides a keyboard driven language that you can internalize to become […]
Hi all, Earlier this year, I gave an internal talk introducing the Haskell programming language to the team at Coveros. I thought perhaps some of you might find the slides useful. Introduction to Haskell You can learn more about Haskell at: Haskell.org Learn You A Haskell HaskellCast Thanks for reading!
Hi all, Last May I gave a talk at the HaskellDC Users Group on a very cool and new (to me) data structure called zippers. Slides are attached to this post. So what are zippers? We’ve all had to iterate through a data structure — element by element through a list, through levels and nodes […]
