Category: linkblog

Just like Windows taking over from other corporate platforms on the basis of grass-roots employee preferences.

I remember that game too. Hard to believe that was 20 years ago. Only a few weeks into my first semester at UVa and the team was breaking barriers–and Clemson’s defense. No wonder the Groh years were so disappointing; there was nowhere to go from that season but down.

The 4’33” playlist has better brand recognition than the 2’13” playlist.

WhiteHat pulls the curtain aside to talk about their scanning infrastructure.

Interesting list of security issues from Unicode, including lookalike characters, the bidirectional feature, bad Unicode-to-other-charsets mangling, and more fun. From Chris Weber, who went to my high school before he started a security company.

HackIsWack.com, ironically, has multiple security flaws, including cross site scripting, cross site request forgery, directory listing enabled, arbitrary upload of Flash files, and more. Symantec, we expected more.

Album tacos!

Be sure to check out the large scale photos of the model. Simply staggering amounts of detail.

The lab formerly known as CEBAF, where I cut my teeth running cables and wiring data acquisition boards while in high school.

The toll for this unnecessary, dishonest war is too high.

The cries of "wealth distribution" from people who have made their fortunes redistributing wealth are disingenuous at best.

Nice. Now we need a “Strange Brew” cream ale.

His takeaway from playing football at Virginia: “…[be] a good person. A good character guy. A community guy. That goes way beyond the Xs and the Os. If you are a stand-up guy, if you are true to your word, if you are respectful, I feel like you can do a lot of good things on the football field.” If we can capture that spirit with Mike London, we’ll have come a long way back from Al Groh.

Making me rethink my pledge to never buy another VW.

That’s kind of awesome.

Another interesting acquisition graphic.

Fascinating coverage of a decade of Oracle acquisitions, and speculation on where it’s going next.

Oh the beautiful visuals.

“Then this happened.” In retrospect it’s easy to see the design tipping points; they weren’t so apparent when they were happening.

Gartner’s Joseph Feiman calls out Veracode as HP and IBM’s competitor.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Delighted to see HP’s acquisition of Fortify. Veracode now stands alone in offering independent third party assessments of application binaries. HP’s acquisition validates the market while accentuating Veracode’s differentiation.

Excellent summary of thoughts and considerations about providing help content in web applications.

No surprise if you’ve eaten Five Guys.