Month: June 2003

RefactoringCringely. A recent piece by Robert Cringely caused a small stir in the refactoring community recently, as he criticized refactoring. Phlip summed the response on the refactoring mailing list with an unusually restrained '…he sounds like a “skeptic” who writes reviews of books he has no intention of reading.' Certainly it isn't clear how much… Continue reading RefactoringCringely

Interaction Design Grad School. I've started a blog to document my upcoming two years of graduate work in interaction design at Carnegie Mellon. For those of you who want to know what design grad school is like, (but don't want to spend the time or the money!) this is for you. [ia/ – information architecture… Continue reading Interaction Design Grad School

Report: IRS Information Security Seriously Flawed. The GAO released this report on June 2: Information Security: Although Progress Made, Weaknesses at the Internal Revenue Service Continue… [beSpacific]

Evolution 1.4 was also released. It seems like a shame that Ximian is selling Exchange seats instead of building a native collaboration infrastructure, but business is business. [Hack the Planet]

CNet: Nullsoft founder says he's had it with AOL. [Hack the Planet]

Mozilla on the move. Joel Spolsky's endorsement of Mozilla Firebird — he says “it has finally caught up with Internet Explorer” — has attracted lots of notice. It is, indeed, a sweet piece of work. I love how the extensions work. The first one I picked up was LiveHTTPHeaders which seems to instantly obselete Proxomitron… Continue reading Mozilla on the move

Searchable slides. I've added an XPath search feature to the OSCOM slideshow. Thanks to Brendan Eich, it's working identically in both IE and Mozilla (though coded somewhat differently for each). I'll have more to say about this technique in an upcoming article, but since the feature is already public I thought I'd at least mention… Continue reading Searchable slides

Wired News: Tech a Key in Media Rule Change. In a statement issued Monday, Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, one of three Republicans who backed the measure (which passed by a three-to-two margin), concluded that consolidation of media is less problematic now that the public has more sources of information from which to choose. [Tomalak's Realm]

Wave of Strikes Leaves Much of Western Europe Crippled. Protesting workers in France and Austria shut down subway systems, ports, trains, toll roads, and airlines. By Mark Landler. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Stop Wardriving: Protect Your Wireless Network. Computerworld News has a story on Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Hackers. Not sure why this is important? Check out C|Net's step by step explanation of how “wardrivers” can penetrate an unsecured wireless network. Using an unsecured wireless network for client matters is risky. In fact, I recommend lawyers think twice before using even… Continue reading Stop Wardriving: Protect Your Wireless Network