OpenIDTuesday, 9th December 2003
YAGNI and DRY
Two acronyms that have been seeing a lot of action at work recently are YAGNI and DRY. They’re great principles to go by in any case, but in a pair programming environment they take on a whole new level of utility. [... 231 words]
The GNU Privacy Handbook. How to use GPG. Encryption is anything but simple. 
3:13 am
Python shlex module. Parsing of simple UNIX shell-like syntax, contributed by ESR 3:15 am
Debian’s Response. Praise for Debian’s handling of their recent security incident 3:16 am
Five Geek Social Fallacies (via) How many of these do you exhibit? 3:17 am
Nasty new IE vulnerability
Most people reading are probably aware of the common trick whereby spammers and other assorted ne’er-do-wells publish URLs with usernames that look like hostnames to fool people in to trusting a malicious site—for example, http://www.microsoft.com&session%123123123@simon.incutio.com. This trick is frequently used by spammers to steal people’s PayPal accounts, by tricking them in to “resetting” their password at a site owned by the spammer but disguised as PayPal.com. [... 164 words]
Jeremy Zawodny’s 2004 Crystal Ball. PageRank Still Dead 8:43 pm
Ben’s 2004 Crystal Ball. The year of CSS is nigh 8:44 pm
NABA Compiler (via) A Java compiler in Python? 10:08 pm
Congratulations to Eric and Kat (via) kat+eric:first-child {name:carolyn;} (pinched from Web Graphics) 10:16 pm
