Beginners guide - Building a retail web shop Workshop update

For some years now I’ve maintained s free online hands-on beginners workshop for getting started with business logic tooling. Recently I’ve updated the entire workshop to the latest versions of the components and updated the front end.

The basics of this workshop is developing an understanding of how to use an external rules engine in your development project. It’s about providing decision management capabilities so that you can dynamically change your business logic without having to change your application code. No code changes means you don’t have to redeploy the application to change the behavior application.

The power of externalizing business logic can’t be underestimated in these times of fast moving development and application life cycles where we want to be agile and release often. While this online workshop showcases a simple local installation and deployment for teaching purposes, one can easily see the implications for developers working on modern cloud-native container-based deployment models.

This workshop has been split out into ten separate labs, each one focusing on a single aspect of the project as you build your business logic out using almost every type of rule offered by the engine. You’ll explore the tooling, editors, and more, each a single step at a time.

It’s set up to be self-paced and you can stop anywhere along the way, spin down the application server, and return at a later time to continue down your learning path. The workshop is also hosted as a Git project that you can download and take with you for learning on the road.

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Beginners guide - Building a retail web shop Workshop update

For some years now I’ve maintained s free online hands-on beginners workshop for getting started with business logic tooling. Recently I’ve updated the entire workshop to the latest versions of the components and updated the front end.

The basics of this workshop is developing an understanding of how to use an external rules engine in your development project. It’s about providing decision management capabilities so that you can dynamically change your business logic without having to change your application code. No code changes means you don’t have to redeploy the application to change the behavior application.

The power of externalizing business logic can’t be underestimated in these times of fast moving development and application life cycles where we want to be agile and release often. While this online workshop showcases a simple local installation and deployment for teaching purposes, one can easily see the implications for developers working on modern cloud-native container-based deployment models.

This workshop has been split out into ten separate labs, each one focusing on a single aspect of the project as you build your business logic out using almost every type of rule offered by the engine. You’ll explore the tooling, editors, and more, each a single step at a time.

It’s set up to be self-paced and you can stop anywhere along the way, spin down the application server, and return at a later time to continue down your learning path. The workshop is also hosted as a Git project that you can download and take with you for learning on the road.

#java #tutorial #jboss #red hat #developer #retail #business logic #workshop #hands-on #decision management

Holiday Shopping Craze, COVID-19 Spur Retail Security Storm

As online retailers prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season, security researchers are warning that cybercriminals will be on the prowl this year, with the added factor of the coronavirus pandemic pushing many Black Friday shoppers online.

Chris Eng, chief research officer with Veracode, warns that the deluge of in-person shoppers during the pandemic has pushed restaurants, boutique shops and other retailers to utilize new online software ecommerce platforms – but they aren’t prepared for implementing the correct security measures for them.

“Everybody’s becoming more dependent on software. And now they get to also have the challenges of securing that software that other companies have had before,” he said during this week’s Threatpost podcast.

Listen to the full Threatpost podcast, where Eng discusses the top threats and trends to expect during the online holiday retail season in 2020, as well as top takeaways from Veracode‘s State of Software Security, released on Tuesday.

Below find a lightly edited podcast transcript.

Lindsey O’Donnell Welch: Welcome back to another episode of the Threatpost podcast. This is Lindsey O’Donnell Welch with Threatpost. And I am joined today by Veracode chief research officer, Chris Eng, who is here to talk about retail application-security challenges and security advances in that area, as well as a new state of software security report by Veracode that was just released. So Chris, thank you so much for coming on to the show today.

Chris Eng: Great to be here.

LO: Great. So I really want to focus on the state of software security overall, but then also, the retail industry, especially with, Amazon Prime Day earlier in October, and then the holiday-season shopping kicking off with with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. How is retail security going to face different challenges this year, with how applications are being used and being vulnerable and things like that? But before we discuss that, do you want to talk a little bit about the state of software security report and some of the big takeaways and trends that you saw there?

CE: Yeah, sure, happy to. So this is a report that Veracode releases every year, and the data set gets bigger every year, because we use our customer data, to basically find some of the trends that are happening in the application-security space, because of where we are as a cloud service, we have access to all that data. And so we can slice and dice it in many different ways and ask interesting questions about what’s happening out there. And so this time, for example, we looked at 130,000 active applications that are being developed across the world in different industries, and we really wanted to focus in this year on the theme that we ended up with is “nature versus nurture.” And in other words, you know, what do you control? And what don’t you control? When you think about the vulnerabilities that you have in your applications? And how long it takes to fix those? And to what extent you actually get after those? What can you control? And we thought that was an interesting question to ask, because we had found in previous reports that, for example, customers that scan more frequently, actually reduce their security debt much faster and much more efficiently than those that didn’t. And so we said, well, what what other factors are there? And so that’s, that’s something that when we looked at it, we thought about certain things that you just inherit, right? There’s certain things that you don’t really control, you don’t control the size of your organization, the size of your application, the amount of security debt that you inherit, that’s kind of like your nature, right? But then there are things that you do control, you control, how frequently you scan, what types of scanning that you use, different technologies, how regular your scan cadence is. Is it bursty, is it irregular versus regular? And basically in a nutshell, we found that all these things that you do control, can actually improve your fixed time significantly – Even if you’re dropped into like a bad environment. Even if you’re dropped into, an old, crusty legacy application in a slow moving organization with a high amount of security debt. There’s still things that you can do as developer to improve the overall security the application so I thought that was a really, really cool finding, to kind of isolate all these different factors and kind of show the correlation there.

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Evolution in Web Design: A Case Study of 25 Years - Prismetric

The term web design simply encompasses a design process related to the front-end design of website that includes writing mark-up. Creative web design has a considerable impact on your perceived business credibility and quality. It taps onto the broader scopes of web development services.

Web designing is identified as a critical factor for the success of websites and eCommerce. The internet has completely changed the way businesses and brands operate. Web design and web development go hand-in-hand and the need for a professional web design and development company, offering a blend of creative designs and user-centric elements at an affordable rate, is growing at a significant rate.

In this blog, we have focused on the different areas of designing a website that covers all the trends, tools, and techniques coming up with time.

Web design
In 2020 itself, the number of smartphone users across the globe stands at 6.95 billion, with experts suggesting a high rise of 17.75 billion by 2024. On the other hand, the percentage of Gen Z web and internet users worldwide is up to 98%. This is not just a huge market but a ginormous one to boost your business and grow your presence online.

Web Design History
At a huge particle physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland, the son of computer scientist Barner Lee published the first-ever website on August 6, 1991. He is not only the first web designer but also the creator of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). The worldwide web persisted and after two years, the world’s first search engine was born. This was just the beginning.

Evolution of Web Design over the years
With the release of the Internet web browser and Windows 95 in 1995, most trading companies at that time saw innumerable possibilities of instant worldwide information and public sharing of websites to increase their sales. This led to the prospect of eCommerce and worldwide group communications.

The next few years saw a soaring launch of the now-so-famous websites such as Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Google, and substantially more. In 2004, by the time Facebook was launched, there were more than 50 million websites online.

Then came the era of Google, the ruler of all search engines introducing us to search engine optimization (SEO) and businesses sought their ways to improve their ranks. The world turned more towards mobile web experiences and responsive mobile-friendly web designs became requisite.

Let’s take a deep look at the evolution of illustrious brands to have a profound understanding of web design.

Here is a retrospection of a few widely acclaimed brands over the years.

Netflix
From a simple idea of renting DVDs online to a multi-billion-dollar business, saying that Netflix has come a long way is an understatement. A company that has sent shockwaves across Hollywood in the form of content delivery. Abundantly, Netflix (NFLX) is responsible for the rise in streaming services across 190 countries and meaningful changes in the entertainment industry.

1997-2000

The idea of Netflix was born when Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph decided to rent DVDs by mail. With 925 titles and a pay-per-rental model, Netflix.com debuts the first DVD rental and sales site with all novel features. It offered unlimited rentals without due dates or monthly rental limitations with a personalized movie recommendation system.

Netflix 1997-2000

2001-2005

Announcing its initial public offering (IPO) under the NASDAQ ticker NFLX, Netflix reached over 1 million subscribers in the United States by introducing a profile feature in their influential website design along with a free trial allowing members to create lists and rate their favorite movies. The user experience was quite engaging with the categorization of content, recommendations based on history, search engine, and a queue of movies to watch.

Netflix 2001-2005 -2003

2006-2010

They then unleashed streaming and partnering with electronic brands such as blu-ray, Xbox, and set-top boxes so that users can watch series and films straight away. Later in 2010, they also launched their sophisticated website on mobile devices with its iconic red and black themed background.

Netflix 2006-2010 -2007

2011-2015

In 2013, an eye-tracking test revealed that the users didn’t focus on the details of the movie or show in the existing interface and were perplexed with the flow of information. Hence, the professional web designers simply shifted the text from the right side to the top of the screen. With Daredevil, an audio description feature was also launched for the visually impaired ones.

Netflix 2011-2015

2016-2020

These years, Netflix came with a plethora of new features for their modern website design such as AutoPay, snippets of trailers, recommendations categorized by genre, percentage based on user experience, upcoming shows, top 10 lists, etc. These web application features yielded better results in visual hierarchy and flow of information across the website.

Netflix 2016-2020

2021

With a sleek logo in their iconic red N, timeless black background with a ‘Watch anywhere, Cancel anytime’ the color, the combination, the statement, and the leading ott platform for top video streaming service Netflix has overgrown into a revolutionary lifestyle of Netflix and Chill.

Netflix 2021

Contunue to read: Evolution in Web Design: A Case Study of 25 Years

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A Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Web Application with Typescript and Express

Web applications are types of software applications that run on remote servers (source). Examples of web applications can range from word processors, to file scanners, video editing tools, shopping carts, and more. Web applications can be great additions to any website; they can even function as websites themselves (Facebook, Gmail, and Udacity’s classroom are all examples of popular web applications), so understanding how to set up and implement a web application is a fantastic skill to have.

For this guide, I am assuming that you already have a basic knowledge of npm, node and whatExpress Requests and Responses are (or that you at least know what they are used for in their basic sense). Also, I assume that you know what the npm install and mkdir commands do. You have to know basic Typescript to implement — or at least know basic JavaScript to read and understand — the code below. Finally, this is the base for the backend of a web application. You still need to create a frontend application using a framework like Angular or an HTML/CSS file to make requests and display responses.

Before you start, it’s important that you create a folder in your favorite place on your computer. This can be anywhere as long as you have a sense of how you are going to find it later when you come up with an awesome project to start developing.

The Process:

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How Web Works - Web Application Architecture for Beginners

Do you know that there is a difference between websites and web applications? ( you might have thought that both are the same). The web application is a program that runs on a browser and it has mainly three formal characteristics.

• Addresses a particular problem, even if it’s simply finding some information
• As interactive as a desktop application
• Works with Content Management System.
  If we talk about the website then traditionally it’s just a combination of static pages. A website becomes a web application when it consists of both static and dynamic pages (yes!! it’s true that all modern websites are the example of web applications.) 
  Web application architecture is a mechanism that gives us a clarification that how the connection is established between the client and the server. It determines how the components in an application communicate with each other.

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