For a number of years now work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply in...
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Only 90s Web Developers Remember ThisHave you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A person capable of great innovation. A human being that all other human beings could aspire to.
Beautiful not FastFrom the readme. YOLOKit is a delightful library for enumerating Foundation objects.
Salted Password Hashing - Doing it RightIf you're a web developer, you've probably had to make a user account system. The most important aspect of a user account system is how user passwords are protected.
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Top 3 Blunders Found in Developer RésumésAre you afraid of being sucked into the “resume black-hole”? Well, I’m here to tell you the infamous “black hole” doesn’t have to be so scary IF you can avoid a few ever so common technical resume blunders. Avoid weighing down your resume with irrelevant content.
The regex that broke a serverI’ve never thought I would see an unresponsive server due to a bad regex matcher but that’s just happened to one of our services, yielding it it unresponsive. Let’s assume we parse some external XML files containing a dealer car info.
Why I Write Tests?I write software which is used to manage sensitive information. It doesn’t really matter what kind of information my software deals with. The only things that matters are Also, often the first requirement is a lot more important than the second one. It makes sense.
On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to the NSA’s PRISM ProgramI have confirmed that the SSL vulnerability was introduced in iOS 6.0. It is not present in 5.1.1 and is in 6.0. According to slide 6 in the leaked PowerPoint deck on NSA’s PRISM program, Apple was “added” in October 2012.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.