Archive for January, 2010

An Offering to the Singularity: The Sheep Enterprise
Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Once the Singularity arrives and we have all been uploaded to androids, we will surely dream of electric sheep. But how will we take care of these virtual flocks? Luckily, “The Sheep Enterprise” from 1950 explains everything one needs to know about raising and maintaining sheep, electric or otherwise.

The Sheep Enterprise: How to establish and [...]

Over One Billion JSessionID’s Served!
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The 2006 RandomCoder article, “JSESSIONID considered harmful” mentions that a Google search on URLs with “jsessionid” in them resulted in 76 million results. Now in 2010, there are over one billion pages with “jsessionid” in the URL!
Although I understand the motivation behind URL-based session-ids (support cookie-less users), it seems inconceivable that all billion of these [...]