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Creating a closed standard
After reading on Graham Cluley’s blog that the IEEE came up with a new standard [PDF] for malware interchange, I had to check it out immediately. As always, being a cranky old man, I found several problems with the proposed standard: Even though the presentation has a section abou “Re-Inventing the Wheel”, it fails to…
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wpdesigner.com review
wpdesigner.com is an other blog / resource targeted at WordPress users. It has the usual categories, like webhosting, themes, tips, tutorials and so on. I especially liked the “How to Get Help for WordPress Problems” section, mainly because it starts with “Search Before You Ask” (but the other tips it gives are also good). The…
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Those who know, do it
There is an old joke, which I might have referenced in the past (my memory is almost non-existing :-P), which goes something like this: Those who know how to do X, do it. Those who don’t, teach it. Those who can’t even teach it, supervise it. I assume that journalists come in somewhere in the…
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A couple of challenges
The Google code-jam. Algorithmic, ACM-like programming challenge (don’t forget about UVa if you want to get some warmup). A “find the vulnerability” type contest from Immunity. A Javascript compression contest – this is not an “official” contest (in the sense that there are no prizes and no very strict rules), but more of a “one-upmanship”.…
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delicious/cdman83
PostgreSQL Experts Inc. – Presentations and Documents Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:09 AM PDT Some very interesting presentations, related mostly to PostgreSQL, but there are more generic ones also. Common gotchas when writing your own p/invoke Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:16 AM PDT Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:05 PM…
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The Yellow Smiley Face
The short film below is from the Portable Film Festival site. It is a very good one and worth watching, even if you don’t speak Romanian (it is subtitled in English). It is a piece of life captured in a masterful way (I’ve uploaded it to blip.tv because the Portable Film Festival site seems to…
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Open letter to PhishTank
Dear PhishTank! I’m writing this letter / blog post because I couldn’t find any contact addresses on your site or a user forum to voice my concern. The idea of crowd-sourcing the phish detection great because it lets a human make judgment about threats directed at humans (which is much easier than developing and maintaining…
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Some fun timewasters 🙂
Found this one via h-i-r.net: And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language): Some of the highlights from both of the channels:
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Virtually Hosted SSL – almost there
Virtual hosting (hosting multiple sites on the same IP address) became possible with HTTP/1.1 because it declares the “Host” header, which specifies which one of the (possibly) multiple sites hosted on the same IP address you would like to reach (a small side-effect is that when you use the IP address of a site, you…
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Windows 7 UI glitch
While reading this post I’ve remembered a quirk of the Windows 7 UI which annoys me to no end: you have to click on a non-empty part of the list to get the item-specific menu, otherwise you will get the folder-specific menu, as shown in the second screenshot: This is in fact consistent with the…