Chris Pepper: Sending a Mac away
I have to send my MacBook Pro to Apple for service again, so it's time to review my list of Sensitive Data: Things to Delete and other preparation for giving up physical control of a Mac. Unfortunately...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-08-17
Books of Adam : stories drawn by a guy I vaguely know online. really funny! (tags: blog comic funny fp) 100 ways to spend the Anglo €25,000,000,000 : ‘just how much is €25 billion that [Ireland's...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry Frequently Asked Questions
I'm taking some time to work on the Tapestry documentation ... starting with the FAQ. It's great fun, though this could get to be quite large. I'm just spewing out content right now, over time we'll...
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Danny Angus: note to self, how to convert pfx to pem without passphrase
I do this so infrequently that I always have to google it.Now I can search my own blog!openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -out certificate.cer -nodes
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Bryan Pendleton: It's not just the Web that is dead
OK, so everbody wants to beat up on Chris Anderson for the current Wired cover story.Some people have relatively good points.Others have observed that it's not just the Web that is dead: everything new...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Activating Transport Layer Security (SSL) for web services
Using the DoubleIt web service as a starting point, this tutorial shows how to secure a Tomcat-hosted web service and independent SOAP client with transport layer security (TLS, aka SSL) and basic...
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Grant Ingersoll: Next Meeting: Triangle HUG
The next TriHUG meeting has been announced: Sept. 14. There will be two speakers: Wei Wei on Practical Hadoop Security and Me on Hadoop and Lucene and Solr. For more info and to RSVP, see Triangle...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Ruby 1.9.2 incompatibility
Yuki Sonoda: Ruby 1.9.2 has been released. This is the newest release of Ruby 1.9 series. I have one test that fails with this release. The problem is easily reproducible. The same test passes with...
View ArticleChris Pepper: SystemImager & SALI
We use SystemImager to maintain (rebuild) our small HPC clusters. Conceptually it's very simple: Build a node (the 'golden client') just the way you want it. si_prepareclient: Run rsyncd on the node,...
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Jochen Wiedmann: Certificate conversion
Quite a useful tool for conversion between the various certificate/keystore formats: The SSL Converter is a small web interface which allows you to upload a file from your hard drive. The format is...
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Matt Raible: Scaling Flash Movies to match Browser Zoom Levels
Recently I was tasked with figuring out how to scale the Flash assets in the web application I'm working on. In the app, there's two different Flash assets: a Spotlight (cycles through images) and a...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-08-19
jwz – What different sorting algorithms sound like : in the style of BBC Radiophonics Workshop, with copious flange — my favourite is heap sort. this is brilliant (via jwz) (tags: via:jwz sound music...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Groovin' on the Testin'
I'm at the point now where I'm writing Groovy code for (virtually) all my unit and integration tests. Tapestry's testing code is pretty densely written ... care of all those explicit types and all the...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Moving data around your code - different approaches
I was thinking about this the other day, and I realized I can't particularly think of a label to attach to this concept. Anyone out there got a name for this? This could be due to my lack of formal...
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Bruce Snyder: Why Hiring Consultants is Good For Business
Anyone whose seen the goofball comedy The Office knows who Dwight is and how his co-workers enjoy winding him up and watching him go. Well it turns out that the Dwights of the world (aka the oddball)...
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Sander Temme: Speaking at SofTECH
I will be speaking next Wednesday at the monthly meeting of SofTECH. The topic will be Security and Open Source Software: Many software choices are available to professionals who need to run...
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Bryan Pendleton: Andrew Lipson's beautiful LEGO sculptures of famous M.C....
If you love M.C. Escher's art, hopefully you'll enjoy these beautiful LEGO reconstructions:BelvedereAscending and DescendingBalconyRelativityWaterfallI love the way that Lipson takes the time to...
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Bryan Pendleton: Some snark for a Friday
This is a completely snarky and utterly hilarious look at the 2010 Miss Universe "National Costumes" portion of the contest.Part 1Part 2As Raymond Chen says, the commentary is a bit off-color, but it...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Y!'s Hadoop job best practises
Arun Murthy has put up Yahoo!'s recommended Hadoop best practises. These are good as they show what things are bad -generally anything that bothers the namenode too much, or any work where the input or...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Sticky Perceptions
Joseph Walton: It’s always illuminating to see the different levels of argument. Is this an obvious bug or a personal preference? It’s like an optical illusion. Once you’ve seen it one way, your...
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