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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). It was the wrong audience. And, the audience that did actually read it likely has none of the people he is complaining about in it.

Java 107