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Jun 26

• Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong!
  Interesting musings on getting crypto right in code used by others, especially at large scale or open access. Writing style gets a bit tedious, but....

Jun 02

• Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part I: Overview
  Good basic understanding/getting started guide to OAuth for a potential implementor of an OAuth service provider

Jun 01

• The Socratic Method
  Could very well be apocryphal, but if nothing else it's a really good story, and fodder for explaining alternate-base math later.

May 29

• Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Shard Lessons
  Worth reading just for the section on intelligently designing shard counts. Great discussion on picking counts that smooth your cost step function

May 19

• Extending RESTful services with a custom Request Interceptor - Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog
  Explanation of ways to intercept a RESTful WCF request or response to add functionality. May be a good way to do things like SOAP/WSSE/ebXml wrap/unwrap

May 05

• How to get VMWare 6.5 workstation working again after Ubuntu upgrade
  Upgraded Intrepid->Jaunty today, and needed to follow the recipe in this forum post to get vmWare working again. I'm sure this is obvious to lots of people, but it was useful to me to find this nice short recipe.
• How to implement COMET with PHP
  Useful little demo showing how to do Comet. The PHP part is comparatively uninteresting. The little javascript class to do the client-side COMET is instructive.

Apr 23

• Managed Extensibility Framework - Home
  .Net framework for easily handling extensibility via plugins.
• Atlassian Developer Blog - Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes
  With a few simple steps, anyone can use Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to get JIRA and Confluence up and running for their team in a matter of minutes

Apr 15

• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework
  An open source development tool for building iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other mobile apps with JavaScript.