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Zak Blacher - Transcending Cloud Limitations by Obtaining Inner Piece
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media.defcon.org
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12 years ago
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eng
Transcending Cloud Limitations by Obtaining Inner Piece ZAK BLACHER With the abundance of cloud storage providers competing for your data, some have taken to offering services in addition to free storage. This presentation demonstrates the ability to gain unlimited cloud storage by abusing an overlooked feature of some of these services. Zak Blacher is currently pursuing a Masters of Mathematics in Computer Science, and expects to be..
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Hacking Driverless Vehicles ZOZ CANNYTROPHIC DESIGN Are driverless vehicles ripe for the hacking? Autonomous and unmanned systems are already patrolling our skies and oceans and being tested on our streets and highways. All trends indicate these systems are at an inflection point that will show them rapidly becoming commonplace. It is therefore a salient time for a discussion of the capabilities and potential vulnerabilities of these sy....
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Many web developers know about SSL, but it is very common to see it only partially deployed, or not deployed where it should be. This basic guide on when and how to deploy SSL will help you avoid the most common mistakes. via A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS — Erik Romijn.
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On seeing WarGames for the first time in the 1980s, I wondered which magazine it was. Later, after seeing it on TV and on VHS/DVD, the same question kept nagging at me. I believed that I would one day get to the bottom of this matter. I correctly assumed that the magazine was a real world magazine with a fake advertisement added to it. Through some effort and persistence I finally achieved my goal on 2013-02-24 at 5:30pm.
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Fred Brooks wrote the software development classic The Mythical Man-Month almost 40 years ago. In this interview, Brooks explains why managers still make the same mistakes. via Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad.
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If you write Python code, switching to IPython is the number one thing you can do to immediately improve your productivity. Bold words, I know. Let’s look at how IPython can make you a more productive programmer. via You Should Change Your Python Shell | GrokCode.
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Book Review: Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices
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thomashunter.name
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12 years ago
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eng
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If you write Python code, switching to IPython is the number one thing you can do to immediately improve your productivity. Bold words, I know. Let’s look at how IPython can make you a more productive programmer. via You Should Change Your Python Shell | GrokCode.
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Fred Brooks wrote the software development classic The Mythical Man-Month almost 40 years ago. In this interview, Brooks explains why managers still make the same mistakes. via Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad.
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Many web developers know about SSL, but it is very common to see it only partially deployed, or not deployed where it should be. This basic guide on when and how to deploy SSL will help you avoid the most common mistakes. via A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS — Erik Romijn.
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December has been pretty busy with the release of 2.0 but January will probably be MUCH busier since we have a major backlog of features requested by enterprise and pro users. We are already well under way with quite a few interesting features but most of them won’t be landing for the next couple of weeks since we need the trunk to remain stable for now. Before I get started, if you are interested in Socket support for Codename One and na..
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If you follow me on Twitter you likely would’ve seen my photos of a silly looking contraption with tiny wheels. Meet Deider, the Brompton folding bike:
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Octopress and S3 I’ve finally moved this site over to Octopress and S3. There is a lot of work to be done, the most pressing of which is fixing leftover broken images, implementing code highlighting, and fixing some theme stuff (like the navigation links), but other than that it’s going ok. The move overall was pretty hassle-free with no real problems. I ended up with the following setup:
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How has your experience been relating to the use of a bluetooth keyboard with the iPad; specifically with the way iOS requires the activation of Voiceover to increase remote keyboard functionality. Personally I find the accessibility features in iOS second to non both keyboard and voice but wanted to pole for your experience and findings as I and I’m sure others may be interested to learn such things. Frustratingly how to copy and paste code outside of anything but screen or TMUX. Thanks (:
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yieldthought.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Hi Edg3e, I hadn't looked into using Voiceover to activate app switching and so on - that's... interesting. It takes away one of the few things I preferred about the Surface, whilst adding some of its own new annoyances. Progress, I guess? I sympathize with the copy and paste - often I wanted to take some text from the console and put it into a bug ticket; I ended up writing a small script that uses our bug tracker's API to add a comment ....
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Learn how to inspect view hierarchies of third-party iOS apps using a jailbroken device and debugging tools like Reveal for design insights.
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A little more than a year ago , I was, as someone looking for .Net developers that knew the SharePoint API, frustrated by the confusion in the SharePoint space between the different kinds of developers that exist in the ecosystem. This confusion persists to this day, much to the detriment of
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Samuel Hulick is a user experience designer and runs useronboard.com. He is currently writing a book called User Onboarding.
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A little over a year ago I wrote a post about using Beyond Compare on Mac via Wine. A native version is now in beta and open to everyone! If you haven't tried Beyond Compare, I suggest you do. If you have you already know how awesome it is. I've been testing the Alpha for many months now and thought I'd throw together some instructions for getting it going with git. You can download the beta here: http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta....
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A little over a year ago I wrote a post about using Beyond Compare on Mac via Wine. A native version is now in beta and open to everyone! If you haven't tried Beyond Compare, I suggest you do. If you have you already know how awesome it is. I've been testing the Alpha for many months now and thought I'd throw together some instructions for getting it going with git. You can download the beta here: http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta....
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I think that turbolinks is great: it makes it easy to add AJAX PushState to your Rails Applications. The only problem with that is that we can’t use it any WEB application, because it’s a Ruby Gem. So I did some ugly-but-easy hacks and add it to this very site. I will describe the steps below.
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This book was amazing, I was thinking that the amount of pages the book offers wouldn’t be able to tell a good story but this…
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Figure 1: Sample screenshot editing my .vimrc Vim is an excellent text editor. I've used it for many years and like most vim users, have collected a fairly large collection of settings in my .vimrc and learned how to grok my vim usage effectively through a lot of trial and error. To that end, I've tried to assemble a useful overview of my experience with vim. Foreword: Why? Why would you want to even put in the effort to ....
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Solved: Jetty doesn't show errors on web application start-up
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www.databasesandlife.com
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12 years ago
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eng
From a certain version of the “jetty” package in Debian Linux, if the web application didn’t start up (servlet init() throws an Exception), this error wasn’t logged anywhere. The solution is to install the libjetty-extra package. sudo apt-get install libjetty-extra It took some amount of experimentation to find the solution. I don’t know why you’d ever want to not log errors; i.e. why the logging of errors is an “extra”.
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With 25m Device Installs, Mobile Development Platform Codename One Announces Version 2.0
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www.codenameone.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Tel Aviv, Israel – Mobile development platform Codename One is announcing the release of its 2.0 version on Wednesday, December 25th. In the 7 months since the May release of 1.1 Codename One has reached profitability, quadrupled its paying subscriber base and was downloaded by 500,000 developers. Codename One is a one of a kind solution that allows Java developers to build native applications that work on all mobile devices seamlessly. I..
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Recently, Phil Robertson of the sensational cable TV program Duck Dynasty has drawn quite a bit of flack for his very Christian views kept largely hidden until now through A&E’s refusal to air his more candid statements. Setting personal opinions aside though and totally disregard the absurdity of crucifying Phil for his beliefs because today’s hyper-sensitive, disgustingly entitled society seeks to vilify everyone who challenges their nu..
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In the previous three posts we created a simple ToDo application with Ruby on Rails. In this last part we are going to deploy the application to OpenShift. You can find the complete code of the tutorial here . OpenShift OpenShift is a cloud application platform (by Red Hat). Few months ago, when I was discovering Ruby & Ruby on Rails I started developing an application in order to practice. When I completed the first version I w....
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In the previous three posts we created a simple ToDo application with Ruby on Rails. In this last part we are going to deploy the application to OpenShift. You can find the complete code of the tutorial here . OpenShift OpenShift is a cloud application platform (by Red Hat). Few months ago, when I was discovering Ruby & Ruby on Rails I started developing an application in order to practice. When I completed the first version I w....
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When I joined college I was a pretty bad swimmer. During freshman year I took some beginner/intermediate swimming classes and learned proper swimming technique for stomach crawl, breaststroke and butterfly. The next year I saw this class called Master’s swimming, spoke to the coach and signed up for it. I was by far the weakest swimmer in the class. Everybody else had great stamina and technique. We would do series of 50 metres swimming f....
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We will release the full Codename One 2.0 in a couple of days in the meantime here are the release notes covering the changes for this version. ** Highlights Of This Release ** Support for IntelliJ IDEA Support for Google Play Ads on iOS/Android Support for 3rd party libraries using the cn1lib format Major improvements to the Windows Phone 8 port making it far more reliable Fine tuned performance on iOS optimized g..
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Well, One Game a Month is done! I’ve managed to complete 12 games for the year. My motivation by the end was lacking, so I took it kind of easy this month and made a very simple and quick game called Simon Says . Last month’s game, 9 to 5 , took much longer due to the number of art assets required. I’ll write a proper post about the challenge, how everything went, etc later.
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As I previously wrote, I’ve been busy with Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt , and have even been submitting , patches and issues ! ( This “ closed ” issue needs solving! ) Here are some of the tricks that I’ve used while hacking away. Default provider : I should have mentioned this in my earlier article but I forgot: If you’re always using the same provider, you might want to set it as the default. In my case I’m using vagrant-lib..
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As I previously wrote, I’ve been busy with Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt , and have even been submitting , patches and issues ! ( This “ closed ” issue needs solving! ) Here are some of the tricks that I’ve used while hacking away. Default provider : I should have mentioned this in my earlier article but I forgot: If you’re always using the same provider, you might want to set it as the default. In my case I’m using vagrant-lib..
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Linkbait title aside. This is the story of a holiday card gone wrong because of Facebook's advertising rules. Backstory: I work at a co-working space in Washington, DC called Affinity Lab . This happened to one of my co-workers, Mike who works at a company called ISG. His company created a virtual holiday card and shared it on Facebook. It seems innocuous enough. In his words 'it's a no brainer to boost posts for $5, it goes from 10....
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Linkbait title aside. This is the story of a holiday card gone wrong because of Facebook's advertising rules. Backstory: I work at a co-working space in Washington, DC called Affinity Lab . This happened to one of my co-workers, Mike who works at a company called ISG. His company created a virtual holiday card and shared it on Facebook. It seems innocuous enough. In his words 'it's a no brainer to boost posts for $5, it goes from 10....
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Linkbait title aside. This is the story of a holiday card gone wrong because of Facebook's advertising rules. Backstory: I work at a co-working space in Washington, DC called Affinity Lab . This happened to one of my co-workers, Mike who works at a company called ISG. His company created a virtual holiday card and shared it on Facebook. It seems innocuous enough. In his words 'it's a no brainer to boost posts for $5, it goes from 10....
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Linkbait title aside. This is the story of a holiday card gone wrong because of Facebook's advertising rules. Backstory: I work at a co-working space in Washington, DC called Affinity Lab . This happened to one of my co-workers, Mike who works at a company called ISG. His company created a virtual holiday card and shared it on Facebook. It seems innocuous enough. In his words 'it's a no brainer to boost posts for $5, it goes from 10....
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Python script to check last exec time and exit code of script
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www.zufallsheld.de
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12 years ago
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eng
I needed a script that checks: whether a cronjob ran at its determined date (that means it runs regularly) if the cronjob ran successfully It should also be monitor-able via Nagios . That means, it should provide a meaningful output for when something went wrong with the cronjob, e.g. “ CRITICAL : cronjob did not run!” Of course, someone already had the same requirements and built a Perl-script for it, which in turn can be used as ....
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This is the third part of the tutorial. In this part, we are going to use Devise & CanCan in order to add authentication and authorization features to the application. In order to continue, you must complete the previous two parts if you haven’t done this already: Done? Cool, let’s start. You can find the complete code of the tutorial here . MailCatcher Our users will register to the application using their email address and ....
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This is the third part of the tutorial. In this part, we are going to use Devise & CanCan in order to add authentication and authorization features to the application. In order to continue, you must complete the previous two parts if you haven’t done this already: Done? Cool, let’s start. You can find the complete code of the tutorial here . MailCatcher Our users will register to the application using their email address and ....
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Introduction The first thing I did when I started programming in Go was begin porting my Windows utilities classes and service frameworks over to Linux. This is what I did when I moved from C++ to C#. Thank goodness, I soon learned about Iron.IO and the services they offered. Then it hit me, if I wanted true scalability, I needed to start building worker tasks that could be queued to run anywhere at any time. It was not about how many..
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I wrote a couple months back about exploring FDWs. Its become quite clear to me, despite still having ample room for improvement, they’re not getting enough attention. Foreign data wrappers are perhaps better thought of as a foreign table, or even better yet as a view into some remote data source. They don’t take care of auto-updating or syncing data, thats all up to you, but it gives you a straight forward mapping to work with remote data ....
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I wrote a couple months back about exploring FDWs. Its become quite clear to me, despite still having ample room for improvement, they’re not getting enough attention. Foreign data wrappers are perhaps better thought of as a foreign table, or even better yet as a view into some remote data source. They don’t take care of auto-updating or syncing data, thats all up to you, but it gives you a straight forward mapping to work with remote data ....
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Somewhere to Belong In a place the wind sways, Is a meadow to fritter away, Has a flower to hold tears, And a shade until the sky clears. Lives a heart to hide a hurt, In the saint of the heart. Somewhere way way back, Near the river of the song, Says a tree of … Continue reading Somewhere to Belong
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