2014
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Cross-Platform Software
Dec 7
One operating system that runs on all classes of devices. The app you build for your phone can run on your desktop. The program you write for task management on a laptop can run on the phone. It’s the first real cross-platform system we’ve seen.
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Encryption, Information Leakage, and Side-Channel Attacks
Dec 3
Potential side-channel attacks for encryption software can render even the most secure scheme breakable in a trivial manner.
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Debit Card (Lack of) Security
Nov 28
Debit card numbers have certain features to make them easy to produce. It also makes them easy to predict, allowing determined thieves to easily steal your money if you’re not careful.
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WordPress Permalink Performance
Nov 26
A few quick WordPress experiments show that the “Post Name” permalink setting, once the least performant option, is apparently the fastest.
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Professional Paranoia
Nov 24
If you can get in, someone else can (and will) find a way to get in without your permission. If your software and systems can be used for good, someone can (and will) find a way to exploit the same for ill.
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Platform Agnostic
Nov 22
It takes a few people stepping over a line to learn multiple languages to help bridge the gaps between cultures and make the world a better place. It also takes a few people stepping over a line to learn multiple programming paradigms to help bridge our communities and help create better software.
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Beautiful Code
Nov 21
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. But also don’t let shipping be the enemy of beauty.
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Cryptography, JavaScript, and Performance
Nov 19
JavaScript really is powerful, if you know how to use it …
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Modular Architecture
Nov 18
One of the most exciting new developments (at least for API geeks like me) is the coming JSON API.
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WordPress 4.1 Includes a Session UI
Nov 14
My attempts to build a session UI over the weekend failed. My attempt to build one during a team hackathon was sidelined so we could focus on, what seemed at the time, far more interesting code. Now, though, I can jump on board with the new session UI being merged into WordPress 4.1!
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Today’s Youth and Tomorrow’s Technology
Nov 13
How many times will today’s youth be told “you can’t do that” before they internalize it, begin to believe it, and doom us to a future of technological mediocrity?