What Highrise has meant to Rails. Highrise is coming up on its 1-month anniversary. It was a fantastic relief to finally get it out and it has been a wonderful experience to see it become the fastest selling product we've ever launched. We had been working on/off on this application for more than a year. [...]

An S O S for 911 Systems in Age of High-Tech. The 911 system has not kept pace with the nation’s rapidly changing communication habits. By SHAILA DEWAN. [NYT > Technology]

VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms. Interesting work: Experts say that the fundamental problem that this highlights is that every stage in Vista's booting process works on blind faith that everything prior to it ran cleanly. The boot kit is therefore able to copy itself into the memory image even before Vista has booted and [...]