Planet Mozilla
In working on the Web Crypto API specification, the valuable feedback and criticism keeps going back to the main pitfall: DOM malleability. The many attack surfaces in each web page makes handing over crypto keys and crypto primitives quite dangerous. As…
9 November 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Time Machine works best when you use it as it's designed: You simply let it run in the background and do its thing, only bothering it when you have to go back and get an old version of a document out. But if you ever want to do anything a little crazy…
8 November 2012Slashdot
jfruh writes "Among the winners of last night's election: marijuana users. Voters in both Washington and Colorado approved referenda that legalized marijuana for recreational use, though the drug remains illegal under federal law. There's been a long…
8 November 2012Planet Mozilla
One of the biggest things that always shocks me is the way people approach problems. Software developers are essentially pattern matchers using experience to figure out how to solve problems that are placed in front of them. This can unfortunately lead…
8 November 2012MySQL Performance Blog
This is not necessarily going to be a comprehensive post, but I learned somethings about MySQL SSL today that I thought would be worth sharing. I was setting up a PRM install for a customer and one of the requirements was SSL replication. In this…
8 November 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
After the company's first attempt at its court-ordered apology came off a bit sarcastic -- and angered a UK judge in the process -- Apple has now posted its second attempt at the official statement on its UK website. However, while this new statement…
7 November 2012Planet Mozilla
7 November 2012Planet Mozilla
7 November 2012Macworld
Organize (available at theMac App Store) is a to-do list manager with project management aspirations, but its ambitious feature set tends to be a drag on the experience. Most essentials for a good task manager are present, like task grouping and…
5 November 2012MySQL Performance Blog
On November 15th at 1PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a webinar entitled “The Hazards of Multi-writing in a Dual-Master Setup“. In my experience many people do not understand the difficulty of managing writes to RDBMS datastores in a high…
5 November 2012