Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage plan became a genuine disadvantage two weekends ago when the server that verified users went down and began to disable operating systems around the world. At ...

Web access control technology from OpenNetwork Technologies Inc. gives Web-based users the opportunity to click once to access a bevy of corporate applications while enabling administrators to discard ...

If you want your customers to transact business on your Web site, you need to build the site on a sure foundation, and that means a Web application server. There are between 20 and 30 Web application ...

Web applications are able to protect your Web assets from attack – especially websites. Discover the best Web application firewalls, as we explore the market and recommend our top choices. Websites ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

In my new day job at Alpha Software, one of my responsibilities is to explore ways to expand the reach of the company’s products. One of the first projects to fall into my lap was load testing a ...

Retrieving and accepting data via a dynamic Web page can be a challenge—the current technologies aren’t exactly intuitive. At the very least, the experienced Web developer will find dynamic script ...

Managing and organizing a home lab can be difficult, especially if you have many servers, self-hosted services, and even domains. While I use some of my domains for actual web hosting, I also use my ...