I’ve been splitting my time lately between the new Spheres project and the Coursera Cloud Computing specialization, in order to sharpen my distributed systems skills. My personal experience has been great, and I have learned tons of new stuff.
Reverse Engineering WipEout (PSX)In 1995 one of my all time favorite video games was released: the original WipEout for PlayStation. The brand new PlayStation produced 3D graphics previously unseen on living room TVs and WipEout exploited its capabilities like no other game at the time.
Remote Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On WindowsPatching time. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP protocol stack (HTTP.sys) that is caused when HTTP.sys improperly parses specially crafted HTTP requests.
Blowing up LocalStorage (or what happens when you exceed quota)Based on some discussion earlier today on Twitter, I wanted to take a quick look at what happens when you exceed the quota limit in a browser’s LocalStorage system. I knew an error would be thrown, but I was curious about the type, message, etc. I built a quick test and threw some browsers at it.
Work doesn't happen the way you think it doesFor the sake of the argument let's imagine that you get in trouble. Real trouble that forces you to pay a whole lot of money to a darn good lawyer to get you out of it.
TopshelfHost your services in-process or in a completely separate AppDomain. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Nam dui mi, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus!
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not all there is to it! This document includes the following interesting comment:
Microsoft Announces Nano Server for Modern Apps and CloudToday we announced new container technologies as well as Nano Server, a purpose-built operating system designed to run born-in-the-cloud applications and containers.
Log Management Tools Face-Off: Splunk vs. Logstash vs. Sumo LogicWhat are the main trade-offs between the leading log management tools and how to choose the one that’s right for you? I don’t know about you, but to me, it can feel like log files are the rabbits of production environments.
It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty(Content note: I normally try to keep my natural level of profanity slightly under control on this blog. I won’t be doing that in this post) The major reason I wrote Hypothesis is to destroy shitty software. Everything is terrible, and I want it to be less terrible.
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.