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My next PC will be an Ultrabook
Darn it all. I didn't want to like this little computer. I've always been a "MOAR POWER" laptop user. For me, laptops are desktop replacements. It's less about the carrying and more about the "setting up in a remote place and having all the power of your desktop." My main laptop has been a Lenovo W520 for years. Show More Summary
Origin(al) Sins
Video from a talk I gave in October at OWASP’s AppSec USA conference — something of a departure from my usual speil — is now up: Origin(al) Sins – Alex Russell from OWASP AppSec USA on Vimeo. I made some pretty glaring errors in the talk: you can’t combine sandboxing with seamlessness for cross-origin content. Show More Summary
Resiliency is the New Normal - A Deep Look at What It Means and How to Build It
Perhaps it is because the whole world feels as if it’s riding on the edge of a jagged knife that the idea of resilience is becoming a dominant theme across so many domains. Resilience in beings first developed when cells evolved a way of maintaining inner order through homeostatic (stability through constancy) mechanisms. Show More Summary
A Simple Tour of the Ruby MRI Source Code with Pat Shaughnessy
I'm not in Ruby core or, well, even a confident C coder anymore, but I've long enjoyed digging in the Ruby MRI source code to understand weird behavior and to pick up stuff for my Ruby course. Pat Shaughnessy is also a fan of digging...Show More Summary
The Last Week in Ruby: A Great Ruby Shirt, RSpec Team Changes and a Sneaky Segfault Trick
Welcome to this week's roundup of Ruby news cobbled together from my e-mail newsletter, Ruby Weekly.
Highlights include: A time-limited Ruby shirt you can order, a major change in the RSpec project, how to make Ruby 1.9.3 a lot faster...Show More Summary
Podcast on the Open Semantic Enterprise
Semantics the Focus of New Release in MIKE2.0 Podcast Series Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment (MIKE2.0) is an open source framework for best practices and methods in enterprise information management. Structured Dynamics has been an active contributor to parts of MIKE2.0, particularly in semantic technologies. MIKE2.0 has started a useful podcast series, hosted by [...]
Java Web Application Security - Part I: Java EE 6 Login Demo
Back in February, I wrote about my upcoming conferences: In addition to Vegas and Poland, there's a couple other events I might speak at in the next few months: the Utah Java Users Group (possibly in April), Jazoon and ÜberConf (if my proposals are accepted). Show More Summary
Designing for Tablets? We’re Here to Help!
Posted by Roman Nurik, who often writes about Android design-related topics on Google+ So you’ve got a great Android phone app on Google Play, your users love it, and you’re kicking back and watching the download numbers soar. Congrats!...Show More Summary
Classic WTF: Cursed and Re-Cursed
It's Thanksgiving here in the US, so we're taking the day off! So, here, enjoy a classic. Cursed and Re-Cursed was originally published on May 7, 2009.
Graham K. was working for an atmospheric chemistry research group in a university in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Show More Summary
Touch Laptops
I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much I like the Surface RT. I wasn't expecting a lot when I ordered it, but after a day of use, I realized this was more than Yet Another Gadget. It might represent a brave new world of laptop design. Show More Summary
SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure
Last Monday I had an opportunity to present as part of the keynote of this year’s SharePoint Conference. My segment of the keynote covered the new SharePoint Cloud App Model we are introducing as part of the upcoming SharePoint 2013...Show More Summary
Entity Relationships in a Document Database at ZendCon 2012 - Bradley Holt
Here are the video and the slides from my Entity Relationships in a Document Database at ZendCon 2012. Some of the tools mentioned in the presentation: Doctrine CouchDB Doctrine MongoDB ODM
Domain-Driven Design at ZendCon 2012 - Bradley Holt
Here are the video and the slides from my Domain-Driven Design talk at ZendCon 2012. If you’re interested in learning more about this topic then I’d recommend reading the original book on the topic of Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans’. Show More Summary
Not Really Rebels: My Øredev 2012 Experience
Many months ago I found out about Øredev 2012 and submitted a proposal to give my talk on building testable PHP applications. Much to my surprise it was accepted and plans were hatched to fly me across the Atlantic and give my talk. The...Show More Summary
Bits and Remainders
I’ve been working on an epically-long blog post on the Offline problem for something like two months now and it’s still not done. That’s not so much to tease as warn you; Frances thinks I should post it in installments. It’s that long. Anyhow, as a result of that ever-growing design/analysis/writing hairball, I haven’t blogged when I might have. Show More Summary
Brown Bag Lunch: Of Flagpoles and Fishes
The New Paradigm of ‘Substantive Marketing’ for Innovative IT This decade has clearly marked a sea change in the move of enterprise software from proprietary to open source, as I have recently discussed [1]. It is instructive that only a mere six years ago I was in heated fights with my then Board about open [...]
This Week in Ruby: MRI 1.9.3-p327, Rails 3.2.9, Capybara 2.0, and the Fukuoka Ruby Award
Welcome to this week’s roundup of Ruby news, articles, videos, and more, cobbled together from my e-mail newsletter, Ruby Weekly. Highlights include: MRI 1.9.3-p327, Rails 3.2.9, Capybara 2.0, and the Fukuoka Ruby Award. Featured Ruby...Show More Summary
New Ad for Ubuntu for Android Arrives, But Where's the Beef?
If you've been waiting for Ubuntu for Android, it still isn't here yet, but you can take in a promotional video for it, available here. As Mark Shuttleworth has made clear, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. Show More Summary
This Week in Ruby: Rubinius 2.0-rc1, Rake 10, Refactoring video, Passenger 4.0 supports JRuby, and more
Welcome to this week's roundup of Ruby news, articles, videos, and more, cobbled together from my e-mail newsletter, Ruby Weekly. Highlights include: Passenger 4.0 gets support for JRuby and Rubinius, Ben Orenstein's awesome refactoring...Show More Summary
This Week in Grails (2012-44)
The big news of this week was the Grails 2.2 RC2 release. Please try out RC2 soon and help us to find issues before the GA release. The Grails48 hackathon is this weekend, Nov 9-11th, 2012. Mr Haki wrote a book: Gradle Effective Implementation...Show More Summary
