Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
From an angry post by Bruce Schneier:
Over the past several months, the state of California conducted the most comprehensive security review yet of electronic voting machines...Serious flaws were discovered in all machines, and as a result the machines were all decertified for use in California elections...Yet California Secretary of State ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Over on the Beautiful Code blog, Ian Darwin has a nice article about reflection in Java. It starts simple, but the end, he's shown readers how to create dynamic proxies. The first person who sends me translations of his examples into Python, Ruby, or C# gets a guest posting on ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Artima has another post about Adobe donating its Tamarin virtual machine to the Mozilla Foundation, which references this post by John Resig. Long and short, it means that languages other than Javascript may be able to run within the browser (well, a browser), though the stack will be rather complex: ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Interesting post at Particletree comparing four web application companies: as David Crow says, it ain't scientific, but it's still a good read.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
I just posted my first entry at the Beautiful Code blog, which is mostly a plug for the journal Software: Practice & Experience (one of the few I regularly read).
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Scott McMahan says nice things about Beautiful Code, while Jonathan Edwards explains why he declined to contribute. There's also this review at graphic-design.com, but I couldn't find its author's name; meanwhile, Henry Carstens would like to know how the contributors got to be better programmers. If he can talk ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
I wasn't happy with the two courses I taught this past winter --- too many distractions, too little preparation. The feedback on the Software Carpentry course was therefore a pleasant surprise: I've heard second-hand that several of the Computer Science grad students were disappointed by its slow pace, but overall ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Via Jon Udell's interview of Lewis Shepherd, I discovered Intellipedia (yes, I'm late to the game). Through that, I discovered barnstars. No wonder I never get anything done...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Carl Zimmer is looking for examples of science tattoos. I suppose computer science would count --- any of our readers able to help?
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Some of the discussion around Beautiful Code has got me wondering: where do you go for in-depth technical discussion? I'm not talking about personal musings and reflections (though a lot of what Jon Udell, Diomidis Spinellis, and others post is tremendously valuable). I'm talking about in-depth magazine-style articles --- the ...
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