NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://goo.gl/f1fUfl Like me on Facebook: http://goo.gl/QITCkN Follow me on Twitter: http://goo.gl/X7abM This documentary was made, prod...
Why I Don't Want Your SDK in ProductionRecently the topic of whether it was better practice to use an SDK or basic HTTP calls when interacting with the API of a foreign service came up on Programmable Web and on Traffic and Weather.
AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I StartedMoving from physical servers to the "cloud" involves a paradigm shift in thinking. Generally in a physical environment you care about each invididual host; they each have their own static IP, you probably monitor them individually, and if one goes down you have to get it back up ASAP.
Street Fighter 2By any standard metric, Street Fighter 2 was a success in arcades. And success also meant issues with players discovering glitches — the more people playing, the more glitches they found. The most infamous of these centered on the character Guile.
Scaling Source Control at FacebookDurham Goode discusses how Facebook scaled their source technology to keep up with their growing team of highly productive engineers. Facebook's current solu...
NullCrew attack on Bell Canada was SQL injection and Bell knew weeks ago – NullCrew (update 2)NullCrew has responded to Bell’s claim that it was a third-party supplier who got hacked by providing DataBreaches.net with more details about the hack and their conversations with Bell alerting them to the breach.
Mystery signal from a helicopterLast night, YouTube suggested a video for me. It was a raw clip from a news helicopter filming a police chase in Kansas City, Missouri. I quickly noticed a weird interference in the audio, especially the left channel, and thought it must be caused by the chopper's engine.
In Defense of Not-Invented-Here SyndromeTime for a pop quiz. Of course, everybody knows that you should always leverage other people's work. The correct answers are, of course, 1(a) 2(b) 3(b).
4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary VisualizationVideo from Derbycon 2012. All videos, with downloads, can be found at this link shortly: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/mainlist
Here's 10 things I did before I wrote this blog post title. What happened next will shock you.What a crap title, eh? Just the worst. But this kind of linkbait garbage is rampant on our internet - that's yours and my internet, people - and we're promoting their chicanery by spreading their links. This came to a head for me yesterday when a video started going viral on the social web AGAIN.
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.