These days if you are building mobile apps, security is a critical design component that many developers are overlooking. That was the conclusion of a 2016 study by Hewlett Packard Enterprise which found that out of 36,000 mobile apps, a whopping 96% of them failed at least one of 10 privacy checks. So when you…
Planning a Data Center Migration? At Northgate Digital we do a number of data center migrations each year, and there are a number of things that need to be taken into account to ensure a smooth and successful deployment. To help you plan your next migration, below is a list of some of the steps…
With the upcoming release of AngularJS 2.0, I hear the question frequently: Should I start a new project with AngularJS or wait for the 2.0 release? Despite past rumors, recent updates from the Angular team have indicated that there will in fact be an incremental upgrade option, so the decision on which AngularJS version to…
With the recent release of Java 8, already people are asking: should we be doing new development with the new version? Should we upgrade our existing application? While it makes sense to begin planning for future development in Java 8 and bringing your developers up to speed on the new features such as functional interfaces…
File this one under the “facepalm” category… If you ever get this confusing error from CakePHP 2, it almost certainly means you forgot to extend the AppModel class. Undefined property: MyModel::$primaryKey [CORE/Cake/Controller/Scaffold.php, line 131] Undefined property: MyModel::$displayField [CORE/Cake/Controller/Scaffold.php, line 132] Fatal Error Error: Call to undefined method Question::schema() File: lib/Cake/Controller/Scaffold.php Line: 137 The solution is…
Recently I was having an interesting problem mounting a samba share on OS X 10.8.2. I used to be able to mount a particular samba volume, but after the last update suddenly that was not the case any more. Nothing was changed on the samba server and I was still able to mount the rest…
Edit: Update 13 is now out and is not blocked by Apple. For newer versions of Mac OS, simply installing the latest version of Java will get you up and running again. Due to a recent security vulnerability in Java, Apple blacklisted certain versions of the Java 7 plugin for Mac rather than downgrade to a secure version.…
After CentOS 4 hit EOL in February, you may have noticed the following error coming from the “yum” installer: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping – 4 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet For those of us that don’t have the time or ability at this moment to…