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Submitted by Renesilva from Google Reader: Thanks to the recent recurrence of a vulnerability I wrote about a few years ago and a gentle prod from Simon, I decided it would be good to write about the dangers of cross-domain Ajax with Flash again.If you read about this story on TechCrunch, note that the "write up explaining all the details" is about an unrelated vuln (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Last week I wrote about some optimizations you can apply to your code that will improve the performance of your site significantly. I also mentioned that regularly an article pops up talking about ways to shave time off your scripts, and I talked about how these articles mostly are bunk. Like this one.The article I linked a (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

Techmeme Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Video hilarity: Windows 7 launched on a MacBook Pro on NBC's The Today Show  —  Oh, dear.  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on The Today Show (international viewers: The Today Show is a morning news and entertainment program that airs on NBC, a big TV network here) to unveil Windows 7. (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Sanjay, my colleague is an avid programmer and excel enthusiast. In his spare time he wrote a small VBA macro to solve Sudoku. Sudoku is a very famous number based puzzle with a 9×9 grid of cells. Each of the 9 rows, columns and 3×3 blocks should be filled in such a way that they have all the numbers from 1 to 9. Sudoku is (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: The US JusticeDepartment and the US SEC filedinsider trading complaints against the billionaire Raj Rajaratnam,his Galleon hedge fund and several other friends and associates a fewdays ago. All the interesting stuff (for example, the transcripts oftelephone conversations) are in the criminal complaints filed by theJustice D (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

::Planet PostgreSQL:: In the previous installment of this series (in which we’re migrating this blog from WordPress to Django and PostgreSQL), we installed Apache, Python 2.6, psycopg and mod_wsgi on the server.A note about the pace: I’m taking this very slowly, spelling out each and every setp. I realize that those of you with more Centos exper (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: My recent poll What alert monitoring do you use? showed 25% of the 58 respondents to bravely state they had no MySQL monitoring. I see 1 in 3, ~33% in my consulting so this is consistent.There is no excuse to not have some MySQL Monitoring on your production system. At the worse case, you should be logging important MySQ (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: As a result of recent Mac troubles, I moved my iTunes library to a Linux file server and setup iTunes on my old TiBook to access the library over an AFP share using netatalk.This worked unexpectedly well, until I noticed something very odd: I could no longer access any file whose name contained an accented character such as (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Thanks to a suggestion from Mohammad Lahlouh, all deleted comments are restored. Thanks!I was able to do this with the mysql binlog, which is a binary log containing all statements executed on the server. If you face a similar problem, here are the steps to restore the DB: See if you're actually storing binlogs. For me thi (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Ref: Google: Computer memory flakier than expected (CNET DeepTech, Stephen Shankland)Summary: According to tests at Google, it appears that today’s RAM modules have several thousand errors a year, which would be correctable if it weren’t for the fact that most of us aren’t using ECC RAM.Previous research, such as some data (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Submitted by Codelust: Best practices for journalists and media organizations on Twitter. (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Welcome to the new BollywoodBollywood movies are suddenly starting to make sense. Hello Hollywood?By Jason Overdorf - GlobalPostOctober 7, 2009NEW DELHI, India — For years, India has been trumpeting the advent of revolutionary new films that turn the cliches of Bollywood on their head — twins separated at birth, “Six Millio (Read More)

Oct 04, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: Fairly often I hear customers say that they plan a table that accumulates millions of rows per day, and they want to keep around, say, the last 30 days worth of data. (For the sake of examples, I'm going to make it the last 3 days.) So this is a kind of round-robin table, with rolling addition of new data and removal of t (Read More)

Oct 07, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: A little while ago, I wrote an article discussing why interfaces rock and the way that interfaces work. However, a couple of comments made me realize that I didn’t discuss one of the key elements about interfaces: why you would use them.One key rule about interfaces is that all methods must be defined as public. You cannot (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

Submitted by Codelust from Google Reader: We'll soon get the announcement. Here are a few possibilities, computed by Thomson/Reuters, using citation analysis.If I had to vote, it would be a Taylor/Woodford prize.  For a sense of this work, see: link, link. While inflation targeting was invented in New Zealand based on the intuition of cleanliness in public administ (Read More)

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