Changing Paradigms
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Is there some sort of middle ground between engineering and consumer drivers for optimal application behavior?
Technology
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Debit Card (Lack of) Security
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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JavaScript really is powerful, if you know how to use it …
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Modular Architecture
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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
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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
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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?