Month: August 2003

Net attack inevitable. Net attack inevitable: This article in USA Today is one of the more thorough assessments I've seen… the current attacks, while damaging, are better seen as probes than as the final deliverable: “In the future, some worm will take 'the vast majority of Internet connectivity down for a day or two,' predicts Ed… Continue reading Net attack inevitable

EEVL's RSS Primer and Why Even Google Can't Filter. Gary Price has two good catches (among others) over at ResourceShelf: A New Primer on RSS“From the announcement, 'EEVL's Primer is aimed at publishers and content providers, with the intention of introducing and explaining the concepts behind RSS and addressing some commonly expressed concerns. It is… Continue reading EEVL's RSS Primer and Why Even Google Can't Filter

It's Vietnam all over again. Right down to weapons problems. (Link courtesy of David.) Meanwhile, Jon Carroll is feeling gloomy about it. [Ceejbot]

You can thank liberals. Preach it, Joe Conason! If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights — you can… Continue reading You can thank liberals

Report: Certifications pay finally succumbs to IT economy: “Database and enterprise application skills continue to pay well above the average for all certs surveyed,” he said. “But it's rapid application development and extreme programming skills that have paid the handsomest every quarter for the past two years.” [Glad to hear it, without being able to… Continue reading Report: Certifications pay finally succumbs to IT economy

Turning Information Into Action. Cory Doctorow has a sterling Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe, on the evolving relationship between political activism and the Internet. Information is power, but it's not enough. Modern emperors have learned the knack of spinning revelations of wrongdoing and bouncing back. Thus far, the Internet has lacked the follow-through necessary… Continue reading Turning Information Into Action

Choosing a Shopping Cart by Paul Whitham; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Dynamic languages and virtual machines. What about robustness? In a world where computation lived within a single VM, strong type-checking and bytecode verification may have been reasons to prefer languages such as C# and Java. But we don't live in that world any more. Computation is distributed; interfaces are language neutral and document oriented; cross-domain… Continue reading Dynamic languages and virtual machines

More Windows Insecurity Links. A few more useful resources on the whole Windows security question. [DennisKennedy.blog]

RSS Reader Reviews; New FeedDemon Beta. From Extremetech.com, rating the RSS readers. Note that a new beta version of the highest-rated reader on this list, FeedDemon, has just been released, offering, in my opinion, some nice improvements to a program I already like and use. [DennisKennedy.blog]