Category Archives: Computers and Internet
Returning to the Moon: Launchpad Security Penetration Exercise
There is an unexpected reward for moving source-code management of my Hexo-generated blogging to git and GitHub. GitHub provides dependency analysis of node.js projects. I receive an automated email about one dependency of my hexo-spanner code. The uglify-js package is … Continue reading
Reactive Systems and Software Fire-Drills
In contrast with the fault-injection aspect of failure testing, the ACM Queue case-study article on the Hootsuite reactive system evolution is more understandable at a 40,000-foot level. There are a great many architectural and software-engineering organization and process considerations in … Continue reading
Failure Testing of Complex Distributed Systems: Confirmable Experience?
The article, “Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing” puzzles me. There appears to be agreement that the inability to demonstrate the durability and graceful degradation of distributed protocols is a matter of failed abstractions. At the same time there … Continue reading
Identity Is not a Thing
It is amazing to me how many ways notions of identity are employed and how nebulous identity itself remains. Consider all of the variations identified in Wikipedia. Contrast the social-science distinctions of identity with the tacit assumption of identity as … Continue reading
The Wonders of Off-by-One Defects
Yesterday, I happened to be filling out a Windows 8.1 Xbox Games message form. I filled the form with exactly 0-characters left. When I sent the message, I received a “message too long” pop-up, reminding me of the length limit. … Continue reading
Sometimes, worrying about man-in-the-middle attacks is not just paranoia
I have a friend who is seriously concerned about man-in-the-middle attacks on his communications. He uses digital signatures on all of his e-mails. I generally reciprocate, and I will again once Outlook 2013 on Windows 8 stops crashing when I … Continue reading
All Your SD-Card Belong to Us
After attending a Geek Dinner last night, I wanted to import the photos from my SD Card into my Windows photo folders for editing and posting to Flickr. Naturally, there were some cat pictures accumulated on my camera also. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Your Words are Wasted – Scott Hanselman
In his 2012-08-19 Blog post, Your words are wasted, Scott Hanselman pleas for the cyber-presence I yearn for: ability to easily create and manage my own content and make it easily available. I cling to that ambition despite my blogging … Continue reading
@Codecademy: The #codeyear Challenge
I’m fascinated by approaches that allow anyone to learn the basics of programming and take it as far as they want. I’ve also noticed that JavaScript has increasing credibility as a starter language for becoming fluent with information technology and … Continue reading
The Drive to Blog, or Not?
I tell myself that I “need” to blog more. I tell myself that regularly. Lately, I’ve been telling myself daily. What I don’t do is fire up Windows Live Writer and create a blog post. I don’t even use the … Continue reading
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