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A Tale of Two Package Managers: Composer and NPM
How Composer and NPM do things wrige and, at the same time, very very wrong.
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WordPress, Security, and Member Management
If you’re logging in to WordPress as an administrator just to write a post, you’re doing it wrong.
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Ethical Quandary: iPhones and Encryption
Is Apple’s new stance on phone data encryption a good thing or a bad thing? The FBI, at least, thinks it’s bad. I say they’re wrong.
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Static Content and Real-time Streaming
When you buy a book, what are you really buying? A discrete copy of the work, or just the rights to access it – possibly from a real-time stream?
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Does It Fit?
Those of us with blogs or product lines or marketing messages often have a piece of material we want to put out that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of our message.
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Content and Quantum Mechanics
If there were a way to use the Heisenberg uncertainty principal in computing, maybe we could have real digital rights management.
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Copyright, DRM, and Diminishing Returns
By driving down the cost of doing business, the publishing industry has inadvertently driven down the barrier to competition as well.
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Code, Credentials, and Public Repositories
Like most developers, I’m lazy. It’s easier to define a root-level constant with an API key or dashboard password than it is to program an interface for setting and storing those credentials. Unfortunately, it means I can very easily slip up and distribute those credentials to the world.
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Deduplication and Self-Plagiarism
There is no faster way to drive content away from your site than self-plagiarism.