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January 22nd, 2007

CYA Security

January 22nd, 2007

Interesting post from Bruce Schneier:

[…] It took the police two weeks to notice the Mooninite blinkies, but once they did, they overreacted because their jobs were at stake.
This is “Cover Your Ass” security, and unfortunately it’s very common.
Airplane security seems to forever be looking backwards. Pre-9/11, it was bombs, guns, and knives. Then it was small blades and box cutters. Richard Reid tried to blow up a plane, and suddenly we all have to take off our shoes. And after last summer’s liquid plot, we’re stuck with a series of nonsensical bans on liquids and gels.
Once you think about this in terms of CYA, it starts to make sense.

Read it here.

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Online Collaboration

January 19th, 2007

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January 7th, 2007

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Inside MySpace.com

January 4th, 2007

How to scale a web application?
Read here.

By mid-2004, MySpace had arrived at the point where it had to make what Web developers call the “scale up” versus “scale out” decisionwhether to scale up to bigger, more powerful and more expensive servers, or spread out the database workload across lots of relatively cheap servers. In general, large Web sites tend to adopt a scale-out approach that allows them to keep adding capacity by adding more servers.

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November 25th, 2006

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The Parable of the Two Programmers

November 6th, 2006

Once upon a time, unbeknownst to each other, the “Automated Accounting Applications Association” and the “Consolidated Computerized Capital Corpora- tion” decided that they needed the identical program to perform a certain ser- vice. Automated hired a programmer-analyst, Alan, to solve their problem. Meanwhile, Consolidated decided to ask a newly hired entry-level program- mer, Charles, to tackle the job, to see if he was as good as he pretended.

Read the story here.

That could be useful for all of you who are working in a large company

(posted by aymeric)

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The IPod

October 28th, 2006

Great article about the ipod in wired. Read it online here. A great moment: Bill Gates discovering the new device…

I brought along my new iPod. At the end of the meal, just as the other guests at the table were pushing away their chairs, I pulled out the iPod and put it in front of Gates.

“Have you seen this yet?” I asked.

Gates went into a zone that recalls those science fiction films where a space alien, confronted with a novel object, creates some sort of force tunnel between him and the object, allowing him to suck directly into his brain all possible information about it. Gates’ fingers, racing at Nascar speed, played over the scroll wheel and pushed every button combination, while his eyes stared fixedly at the screen. I could almost hear the giant sucking sound. Finally, after he had absorbed every nuance of the device, he handed it back to me.

“It looks like a great product,” he said.

Then he paused a second. Something didn’t compute.

“It’s only for Macintosh?” he asked.

Yes, it was. (Then.)

(posted by aymeric)

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Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

October 18th, 2006

This should be interesting for a friend of mine:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/products/dbpro/default.aspx

I got the info from this post:
Visual-Studio-for-Database-Professionals-and-other-Cool-Data-Management-Tools-for-.NET.aspx

(posted by aymeric)

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Language Wars

September 1st, 2006

Joel Spolsky answering this question:
“Which Web development language (ASP.NET, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, etc.) would you recommend and why?

People all over the world are constantly building web applications using .NET, using Java, and using PHP all the time. None of them are failing because of the choice of technology.

These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful, an infinity of platforms where you’re pretty much guaranteed to fail spectacularly when it’s too late to change anything (Lisp, ISAPI DLLs written in C, Perl), and a handful of platforms where The Jury Is Not In, So Why Take The Risk When Your Job Is On The Line? (Ruby on Rails).

How do you decide between C#, Java, PHP, and Python? The only real difference is which one you know better.

Read the full article here.

(posted by Aymeric)

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