Category Archives: General

Motown

Posted on 2012-10-14 by jcs

Matthew Beale has a really interesting post over at madhatted.com that concerns lessons we can learn from Motown. The “we” in question is the software development community. The post is interesting on its own terms but what really struck me … Continue reading →

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Brian Kernighan Interview

Posted on 2012-10-12 by jcs

Informit has a nice interview with Brian Kernighan about C and programming today. There is, it seems to me, a tendency to disparage C as an old and no longer useful technology. This is, I think, profoundly wrong, something that … Continue reading →

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It Seems I’ve Been Wasting My Time…

Posted on 2012-10-11 by jcs

…not to mention lots of tin foil.

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Securing WordPress Sites

Posted on 2012-10-10 by jcs

This is another in my series of posts about keeping my blog (and yours) free from malware. Victor Granic over at switchwp has an excellent and reasonably comprehensive post on securing WordPress sites. I came across his post via Sacha … Continue reading →

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Editing A Column of Numbers

Posted on 2012-10-08 by jcs

Alex Schroeder has an interesting post on editing a column of numbers. The problem is that given some text such as |[[…]] | 1 | 6563| 3796| |[[…]] | — | |[[…]] | 1/3 | 2315| 1259| |[[…]] | — … Continue reading →

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Computer Attacks in Real Time

Posted on 2012-10-06 by jcs

BetaBeat has a fascinating article (via The Atlantic Wire) on a Honey Pot project that allows you to watch attacks as they happen. Every time there’s an attack, a red dot explodes on a world map at the source of … Continue reading →

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NIST Announces SHA-3

Posted on 2012-10-05 by jcs

NIST just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: it’s Keccak. The Keccak hash uses a completely different strategy from the SHA-2 family, something that most analysts view as an advantage. It’s not clear how quickly Keccak will be integrated … Continue reading →

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Stop!

Posted on 2012-10-03 by jcs

Please. Stop. This. I’ve asked, nicely, previously. Now I’m getting annoyed. I’ve said it before: If you want Python, you know where to get it.

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An Analysis of PIN Numbers

Posted on 2012-10-02 by jcs

Over at Data Genetics there’s a great analysis of PIN numbers. By aggregating data from several breaches Nick Berry gathered 3.4 million PIN numbers and performed extensive analysis on them. Every possible value was represented in the sample but they … Continue reading →

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Editing The Occur Buffer

Posted on 2012-10-01 by jcs

Here’s a great Emacs 24 tip from Xah Lee’s Google+ ErgoEmacs circle. If you’re in an Emacs occur buffer you can call 【Meta+x】 occur-edit-mode and then make changes to the occur buffer that will be reflected in the original file. … Continue reading →

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