Category: linkblog

On the plus side, I’ve never sung with Michael Tilson Thomas before.

In the IEEE’s Computer magazine, a good discussion of secure development lifecycles.

I dig this recruiting strategy. If only I could work up the nerve to break out the d20 in the next PM interview.

Honest, occasionally painful, and insightful look at the failure of a startup. Good object lessons.

That would have been a fun election. I don’t really think I’m looking forward to hearing about her lawsuits over this loss, though.

I’d say that it looks like Reid has his re-election sewn up, but then I don’t know how well massive right-wing crazy plays in Nevada.

Incredible survey of preservation efforts at LoC. This is the next frontier of history–how to keep everything from the 20th century (and before, obviously) from crumbling to dust before we can understand it.

A summary of recent developments in web font technologies.

A clean HTML5+JS+CSS way to annotate websites, as a Safari plugin.

Alas, the Doctor goes digital only. The airwaves are a little sadder today.

Aw, to be 12 again. Even as a self admitted adult Lego geek I can’t justify spending coin on this, but the new sets are awesome.

Deep dive into how Apple uses recommendation algorithms to make playlists that you want to listen to.

Thoroughly exhaustive list of default CSS hooks for WordPress. Would have come in handy when I was styling my blog.

Wow–on the fly conversion from Flash (SWF) to HTML5+Javascript+SVG. Amazing.

Nice survey of my personal favorite development in beer. You haven’t had refreshing until you’ve had gueuze.

Interesting technology project for binary analysis.

Gartner uses Veracode’s data on application security to illustrate the point: in the real world, there aren’t significant security benefits in using .NET or Java to write an application.

A loving look at the TFC. I’m looking forward to our next appearance. I won’t be singing in the season opener but will be there for Stravinsky and Mozart later in July.

Noooo!

MAKE: TV was nominated for an Emmy, up against Martha Stewart. My money is on JP.

Wow. There was a moment where Jane Siberry was about the most spectacular voice I had ever heard. Think I need to explore some of the back catalog.

Insight into debugging x64 code. Might come in handy.

I think they forgot to open up the blog post with “Cross-site scripting, I’ma let you finish, but …” Seriously, the Veracode State of Software Security report found that XSS was more prevalent in web applications by a wide margin, both in terms of raw flaw count and applications affected by one or more instances of the flaw.

Programming an Apple //e through the audio interface by playing the original cassette tape back through the iPad audio interface. Wow.

Open source tool to audit compiled software. Rather than doing full on data and control flow modeling, it looks to see if object code resulted from the compilation of specified source code. Could be a good competitor for BlackDuck.

Nice approach to combining navigation and “where am I” in UI design.

Interesting article about the evolution of the buffer overflow market. The Wintel platform’s (x86 + Windows) attractiveness to developers appears to have not done it any favors when it came to the evolution of buffer overflow exploits.

Interesting findings about relative platform security. This sort of report is always subject to sampling biases but some of the findings (the relative insecurity of Perl, ColdFusion, plain-vanilla JSP, and PHP websites) ring true.