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SSL with Rails // Collective Idea
SSL with Rails // Collective Idea
So you saw Firesheep and are worried about security in your app? That’s good, you should be. SSL is easy to do and there’s no reason not to these days. Also, the tools are much better than before, so let’s get started.
#ruby#rails#programming#ssl#security
·collectiveidea.com·
SSL with Rails // Collective Idea
Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap ...
Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap ...
Another startup, Chegg, proved its business model by using Amazon.com to drop ship text books to their first customers.......You don’t negotiate volume discounts with textbook publishers, or build huge warehouses to hold all of the diapers that you’re going to buy until you prove that you have a business model that works.
#business#entrepreneurship#amazon#chegg
·thunk.org·
Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap ...
It's not an arsenic-based life form : Pharyngula
It's not an arsenic-based life form : Pharyngula
And then I finally got the paper from Science, and I'm sorry to let you all down, but it's none of the above. It's an extremophile bacterium that can be coaxed into substiting arsenic for phosphorus in some of its basic biochemistry
#nasa#science
·scienceblogs.com·
It's not an arsenic-based life form : Pharyngula
Falling out of love (Phil Gyford’s website)
Falling out of love (Phil Gyford’s website)
There is a difference. The newer version looks and feels inferior, cheaper, like a shoddy print-on-demand, self-published volume. And yet it costs the same and there’s no way of knowing what you’re getting. I assumed this volume would be the same as all the books I’ve bought in the same series, by the same publisher, in the same edition. But something’s changed, with no clue on the item’s Amazon page.
#books#ebooks#pod#publishing
·gyford.com·
Falling out of love (Phil Gyford’s website)
iPad vs. Kindle: Which is the better e-Reader? | ZDNet
iPad vs. Kindle: Which is the better e-Reader? | ZDNet
The iPad is indeed a useful, entertaining, engaging and disruptive product, but is it really a better reading device than the traditional e-Ink readers currently on the market? We put the iPad’s backlit IPS LCD screen to the test and compared it to its competitors under various lighting conditions
#kindle#ipad#books#ebooks
·zdnet.com·
iPad vs. Kindle: Which is the better e-Reader? | ZDNet
Nelson's Weblog: culture / information-wants-to-be-free
Nelson's Weblog: culture / information-wants-to-be-free
Information wants to be free ... the phrase is not a statement that information should be free. It's not a statement that sharing information is an intrinsic good. It's also not saying it's impossible to keep information not-free. Just difficult.
#wikileaks
·somebits.com·
Nelson's Weblog: culture / information-wants-to-be-free
Architecture of ARel 2.0 |
Architecture of ARel 2.0 |
I want to talk about how ARel 2.0 is architected. I’m doing this for a few reasons, I would like it to be easier for other people to contribute (please read this as “Pink Warrior doesn’t want to be the only one maintaining ARel”), and I’m tired of repeating myself! I hope to eventually take this blog post, summarize it, and add it to the ARel documentation.
#rails#ruby#sql#programming#arel#data_structures
·engineering.attinteractive.com·
Architecture of ARel 2.0 |
Matt’s Musings » Under the cover of the Kindle 3
Matt’s Musings » Under the cover of the Kindle 3
Under the cover the Kindle reveals a fairly standard Linux installation. While the hardware and IO devices are obviously unique, compared to something like an Android phone, the Kindle is refreshingly “normal”.
#kindle#linux#ebooks
·mattb.net.nz·
Matt’s Musings » Under the cover of the Kindle 3
The weight of the word
The weight of the word
The US government was unable to secure its internal communications. Whatever the long-term repercussions of the diplomatic leak - and they may be substantial - that colossal failure is to blame; not a journalist who, having received newsworthy information, publishes it.
#wikileaks#theage#opinion
·theage.com.au·
The weight of the word
Engineers — build businesses not apps
Engineers — build businesses not apps
I’m not suggesting anyone stop building prototypes. I’m not suggesting we don’t explore the idea of an application through its development. However, the next time you have that “aha” moment, think first of the value you can create and the app will follow. The app, it turns out, really is the easy part.
#business#startup#entrepreneurship
·emphaticsolutions.com·
Engineers — build businesses not apps