Tuesday, 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.
[... 230 words]The GNU Privacy Handbook. How to use GPG. Encryption is anything but simple.
Python shlex module. Parsing of simple UNIX shell-like syntax, contributed by ESR
Debian’s Response. Praise for Debian’s handling of their recent security incident
Five Geek Social Fallacies (via) How many of these do you exhibit?
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
Ben’s 2004 Crystal Ball. The year of CSS is nigh
NABA Compiler (via) A Java compiler in Python?
Congratulations to Eric and Kat
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kat+eric:first-child {name:carolyn;} (pinched from Web Graphics)