March, 2008 Archive
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival operating systems Ubuntu and Windows Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to Own competition.
Security firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) — the same company that discovered the first iPhone bug last year — ...
Tags: apple leopard, hack, safari, ubuntu, windows vista
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Forrester recently published a report on Rich Internet Applications and Content Management. The report covers some of the key topics in this area such as organic Search Engine Optimization, changes in build and release management, and how to change Content Management to better support RIA. The content for the report ...
Tags: Content Management, RIA, Rich Internet Applications, Search Optimized Flash Architecture, SOFA
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Microsoft has partnered with some of the world’s top social networks on contact data portability. Starting today, Microsoft will be working with Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing them to create a safe, secure two-way street for users to move their relationships between their ...
Tags: Bebo, contacts, Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Tagged
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
This is kind of neat, now you can share parts of your collaborative spreadsheets via a Google Gadgets. So, it can show up on your iGoogle page and other places. Neat way to pull folks into looking at your exciting number crunching;). Google also launched spreadsheet notifications. Tools lik eZoho ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
A very cool site that gives us a look under the covers at what some of the super high-volume sites out there are doing to get their content and functionality to people. It's amazing to see how some of the highest volume sites out there leverage open source so effectively. ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
"Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think" is yet-another-excellent book put out by O'Reilly Books. It contains 33 essays written by respected members of the Software Development community and each essay is a variation on the theme of how we define "Beautiful Code". The range of topics is vast ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Bidding in the FCC's 700MHz auction closed March 18, 2008, after the auction raised a record $19.6 billion over 261 bidding rounds. The winners of the spectrum have not been disclosed as yet by the Federal Communications Commission.The results of this single spectrum auction surpass the $19.1 billion combined total raised ...
Tags: digital, FCC, spectrum, television
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Often times we spend significant time caught up with diagrams and illustrations of our enterprise technology architectures, patterns, and concepts. Most recently a couple of us have been spending time on some diagrams to help illustrate the concept of a content management bus to help a large organization better share ...
Tags: Amazon, concepts, diagrams, fun, skill
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
A web seminar Google held at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explaining the many tools he’s using: from the Google intranet MOMA, the Google ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I just finished a book I found hard to put down, Better, by Atul Gawande. Atul is a surgeon in Boston who writes for the New Yorker and has published a couple of books. I love his essays and thoroughly enjoyed his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an ...
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