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This is a follow on piece to my 5 part series about writing a search engine from scratch in PHP which you can read at http://www.boyter.org/2013/01/code-for-a-search-engine-in-php-part-1/ I get a lot of email requests asking how to setup Phindex on a new machine and start indexing the web. Since the article and code was written aimed at someone with a degree of knowledge of PHP this is somewhat understandable. What follows is how to set..
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Up until now debugging location oriented applications in the simulator was a bit painful, there was no real way other than coding to a specific location and if you relied on specific GIS data you couldn’t easily debug that case. Chen was working with an enterprise customer and got fed up with that so he built a UI which you should be able to access via the Simulator menu in the next update. This UI allows you to drag a Map to determine yo..
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Jill I’ve been working on “Jill” for the past few weeks. Figuring the best way to do the parts-gathering part of the game (specifically as relating to animation) is doing my head in. I’m trying a few different things as I go, seeing what seems to work the best. The general gist of what it has to do is:
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We are now in the midst of the final week of Kickstarter funding! With the campaign nearing the end, I thought I would give you another development update. First, I spent a few days completely rewriting every bit of text in the game to support multiple languages. You can now change the language from this nifty selector on the main menu, and the whole game instantly switches: Now all we have to do is translate ALL the things!
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This series was incredible, and I loved all the twists and turns. But I was surprised to see that this particular book didn’t…
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Continuing to riff on Brian Hall’s recent piece for Tech.pinions, Panic Inside Apple and Cheers for Satya , that I linked to in my last post , I want to spend some time talking about another topic of his article: the iPhone 5C. Lately there seems to have been a great deal of talk about the 5C as a failed product that missed the target Apple set out for it by a gross and (apparently) indicative-of-impending-doom margin. I could not disagre..
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I’m going to violate my cardinal rule of not using a pull-quote for this article by Brian S. Hall, for to simply point you at his recent piece for Tech.pinions and expect you to grasp the pertinent thread out of the three near-disparate topics within would be a fool’s errand. Although ostensibly about Microsoft, more accurately yet another critique of the 5C, and with a tired subtext of the usual “Apple is doomed”, I see no other recourse..
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One of the great features of JavaScript is the self-executing anonymous function. It's extremely useful because you can avoid polluting the…
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One of the great features of JavaScript is the self-executing anonymous function. It's extremely useful because you can avoid polluting the…
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Since there seems to lack any information for what to do at Ingress events / anomalies. I present my version, in hopes to help you. How to prepare for an Ingress Anomaly. Bring a battery / power-brick No matter your phone. I doubt it'll be able to run Ingress
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Security update: Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
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developers.soundcloud.com
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12 years ago
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On Monday, April 7th, 2014, a major security vulnerability in OpenSSL was made public. The vulnerability was filed as CVE-2014-0160 and…
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We’ve taken some time to bring all our developer resources together into a single site. In doing so, we’ve reorganized the layout to make…
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Security update: Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
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developers.soundcloud.com
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12 years ago
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On Monday, April 7th, 2014, a major security vulnerability in OpenSSL was made public. The vulnerability was filed as CVE-2014-0160 and…
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We’ve taken some time to bring all our developer resources together into a single site. In doing so, we’ve reorganized the layout to make…
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The Age of Turbulence is upon us The telegraph took about 100 years to reach one billion users. SMS took about 20 years to achieve the same number. WhatsApp took just about 2 years to get to one billion users. In 1958, the average years a company stayed in the Standard and Poor’s 500 list was 61 years. In 1980, it was down to 25 years, and by 2004, it was 18 years. Now, a company enters or exits the list every 2 weeks. 75% will be replaced ..
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Last September, in the wake of Edward Snowden’s stunning revelations about the scale of global mass surveillance, President Dilma Roussef of Brazil made an impassioned speech at the United Nations calling for a major break from the status quo on the current systems of Internet governance. As a result, the world is coming to Sao Paulo, Brasil on April 23-24 for a critical discussion about the future of the Internet called NetMundial.
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Turns out, vanity searches pay off: earlier this evening, my girlfriend pointed an article out to me of particular interest. Writing for Fast Company Labs, Jenna Kagel published Inside One Blogger’s Plan To Make Money Without Hideous Ads on January seventh of this year, where she recounted my plans to take this site from a cost center to a profitable enterprise detailed in Doing Monetization Well . To me, to have a site so popular and wi..
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This is so cool. Back when I used to write exclusively on my iPad, I nearly did this so that I could copy a finished article to my clipboard, and then simply tap on a home screen icon to publish it using Pythonista rather than opening the app as an intermediary step between creation and pushing it up to my server. Then I got my MacBook Pro, though, and it became my primary writing device. I doubt this will remain the case forever, so I plan..
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Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway
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www.wired.com
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12 years ago
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Despite it’s oxymoron of a title, this is a great piece by Felix Martin for Wired drawing some interesting parallels between Bitcoin and the monetary system of sixteenth-century Europe. Bitcoin has enjoyed a great deal of support up until now, but the jury is still out as to whether it will turn in to a viable, stable currency or go down in history as a somewhat lengthy flash in the pan. Hopefully, though, for the reasons Felix laid out in ..
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Fantastic article by Jon Lovett at The Atlantic, where he writs about the power of free speech particularly with regards to internet culture. In my mind, these two issues have collided and come to a head recently with the resignation of Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich: given the political nature of the reasons Eich lost his job, I have seen a great number of people on both sides of the issue speak up, out, and often vilify each other. And th..
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After I posted A Question of Value the other day, where I talked about some important questions to ask when evaluating the plausibility of a smart watch as a viable future device category, Linus Edwards sent me a link to a very interesting and thought-provoking piece of his from July of 2013 titled Where Did The Time Go? The Failures Of Technology . Part of the reason I found it so noteworthy, though, is because I disagree with it so str..
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How many times has the following happened to you? You go to a web site and it asks you to create an account. You fill out a form with all the obvious fields and hit submit. The page refreshes and shows you the form again. Phone Number is required Well, that’s annoying. There was no indication that the site needed your phone number. You prefer not to give out your phone number to every web site, but this one is run by a company you t..
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Dissent, Privacy and Information Access in San Francisco
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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The battle over freedom of information is one of the leading issues of our time, and the San Francisco office is part of the movement to protect our right to dissent, privacy, and information access. Between regularly scheduled internal meets and more focused events with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading organizations in the United States on privacy, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), the office has be..
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Merlin Mann once said that when he was seventeen years old, he felt his sole job in the world was to expose all hypocrisy. At the time, at seventeen myself, I laughed; however, a couple of years later the same thing has become true of myself: very few things annoy me as much as hypocrisy these days, and the very closely-related phenomenon of the double standard drives me insane. Today, in a fantastically ironic turn of events that came to m..
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Last week Ben Thompson recommended that anyone who enjoyed his three-part series on the future of news and newspapers check out Nieman Journalism Lab’s latest report on the state of news media in 2014. For anyone interested, here’s the link: New technology, new money, new newsrooms, old questions: The State of the News Media in 2014 ; at the time, I was: I promptly saved the essay to Instapaper and eagerly awaited reading it. However, ..
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It adds up… just like the way compound interest snowballs over time, small differences in affordable freedoms add up to big advantages and disadvantages. A person with more freedoms has better and better chance of having a good and successful life than a person with less freedoms. We live in a world where some birth characteristics such as skin color cannot be used legally for discrimination. But other birth characteristics such as nation....
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Projects These are projects that are basically abandoned right now. I wish I had more time for them! GoNetMon - Network use visualization writting in GoLang, using Prometheus and Kibana ouilookup - CLI tool written in go to look up the vendor for a given MAC address PiBlaster-MQTT - port of PiBlaster to use MQTT instead of a local charachter device goxb_mqtt - native go code that reads from an XBox(tm) controller (using libusb) and sends ev..
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Signing Open Source Android Apps Without Disclosing Passwords
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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You’ve created an open source Android app. The source code is freely available to anybody on GitHub; you might even have a few contributors and followers. You’ve set up a keystore and a private key to sign and release your app. Now, how do you set up app signing in Gradle? And more importantly, how do you minimize the risk of committing the config files containing passwords to GitHub?
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What you need to know about April 7 and your security on the web.
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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Yahoo Amazon.com Netflix Various banks Many more If you’re interested in more technical details you can follow along or on the Heroku blog . The short of it is you, yes you as in everyone, should rotate your passwords once all websites are safe. For further details please continue reading. What does the vulnerability mean In this case it allowed an external party to acquire a moderate amount of data from some computer runnin....
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What you need to know about April 7 and your security on the web.
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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Yahoo Amazon.com Netflix Various banks Many more If you’re interested in more technical details you can follow along or on the Heroku blog . The short of it is you, yes you as in everyone, should rotate your passwords once all websites are safe. For further details please continue reading. What does the vulnerability mean In this case it allowed an external party to acquire a moderate amount of data from some computer runnin....
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Continuing with investigating Capsules as we did with 1.48.0 , lets look at 1.49.0. Small changes this week, so another small teardown. Capsules More objects files have been added. capsule_divider_left.obj capsule_divider_right.obj inventory_icon.obj More strings have been added. const-string/
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Welcome to Part 4 of our series where we interview “disruptive” testers who inject fresh perspective, leadership and enthusiasm in the testing community. Today we chat with Matthew Heusser, who combines his testing expertise and refreshing writing style as a prolific writer, trainer and presenter.
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Until I got to Hyderabad in the early morning of January 24, I didn’t know much about the Swecha* Freedom Fest. All I knew was that we would talk about Defending the Free Internet (DFI) and free software.
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How You, I, and Everyone are Still Getting the Top 1 Percent All Wrong
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www.theatlantic.com
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12 years ago
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I don’t agree with the constant vilification of America’s top 1. Some call them “captains of industry”, others have much more choice combinations of nouns and verbs to describe the small subset of Americans that earn substantially more than everyone else — the constantly marginalized 99 — as if they somehow did not deserve their hard-won success. This article from The Atlantic does not go as far to dispel that ridiculous notion as its title..
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Tor A Fallingen: Installing Wt v3.3.0 on Debian Wheezy
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Tor A Fallingen: Installing Wt v3.3.0 on Debian Wheezy
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Just wanted to share a quick MCEdit filter that I put together. Given a selection, this replaces the top layer of the perimeter circle with glowstone. On our server we use this to mark off private land borders so that people don't accidentally interfere with one another or set up camp on top of one another. Feel free to use it as you like. from pymclevel.materials import alphaMaterials import math displayName = "Player Boundary" inputs = ( ..
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When small handheld computing devices went mainstream, they did so by replacing boredom . I recognize that this supposition seems rather reductive and perhaps more than a little stretched in pursuit of achieving comedic effect, but consider the situations many use their mobile devices in, and what they use them for: often, people employ the latest iteration of this category, smartphones, to stay boredom in a checkout line, provide an escap..
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Moving existing Win 8.1 App to Win Phone 8.1 with new Universal App project – HypeMix has a go!
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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12 years ago
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This a quick and dirty write up of how I moved my existing Windows 8.1 App to Windows Phone 8.1 in a weekend. Now before we get into that I’m going to be honest and say there is still some work to do around the UI, as playing music on the phone is slightly different to a PC or Tablet. What I’m talking about here is all the rest of the work.
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Another week, another seven days of spectacular podcasts. Maybe I’m just biased, but this is my favorite medium in existence — even more beloved than television, film, and — yes, and — writing. So sit back, relax on your commute for once, and tune in to some of the best podcasts on the internet. Permalink.
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