tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99131732011-11-27T17:57:48.199-07:00ramblings, musings, and partly-cloudy thoughts on software architecture, design, and development technologieskindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-3297499978306988642009-02-15T01:17:00.002-07:002009-02-15T01:22:41.858-07:00

1. Started your own blog2. Slept under the stars3. Played in a band4. Visited Hawaii5. Watched a meteor shower6. Given more than you can afford to charity7. Been to Disneyland (Disneyworld, yes. Disneyland? No. A travesty perhaps...)8. Climbed a mountain9. Held a praying mantis10. Sang a solo11. Bungee jumped12. Visited Paris13. Watched a lightning storm14. Taught yourself an art from scratch15.

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-35859548663756655852008-12-19T13:03:00.011-07:002008-12-19T21:25:54.038-07:00

Just started playing with this ... links I'm finding useful building my first app...WebApp FrameworkConfiguring an AppUsers APIDatastore APIDJango templating v0.96Data Model and EntitiesEntity Groups and KeysQueries on KeysBulk Data ImportPython datetime.datetime funArrays in PythonHey look, YAML for JavaUsing App Engine and GWT

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-15097669615898367772007-12-29T13:09:00.000-07:002007-12-29T14:12:55.474-07:00

So after some nudging by a friend, I started digging into Erlang over the summer. I do a lot of work trying to make software systems scale with high availability, so I was instantly seduced by the claims that there are operational erlang systems that have achieved nine 9's of uptime. I've worked on many systems that had SLAs of 99.99 (four 9's) and seen telecommunication systems that had to

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-18281757291269110042007-02-19T15:35:00.000-07:002007-02-19T15:55:01.758-07:00

So XSS is officially a big time problem, where it might have been viewed as a nuisance only 18 months ago. Now xss is the #1 attack vector of web applications...Certainly some xss issues are innocuous, but the vector already has sophisticated means of bypassing filtering, just look at the length of this cheat sheet.And researchers can get paid for disclosing vulnerabilities responsibly ...or not

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-1110257995793200832005-03-07T21:33:00.000-07:002005-03-07T21:59:55.796-07:00

Recently, Richard Grimes wrote an article in Dr. Dobb's about what's wrong with .Net ... more recently, there's been a very active discussion going on at Dan Fernandez's blog where Richard and Dan have been going at it ... throwing in my 2 rupees below, in support of Richard's claim that a large part of the .Net platform is still holding onto a win32 ancestry ... My biggest gripe is COM+ ... SWC

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-1107626098463379712005-02-05T10:54:00.000-07:002005-03-07T22:00:16.520-07:00

http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1814 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=20

kindageekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934291784799753325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9913173.post-1104724763009830062005-01-02T20:55:00.000-07:002005-01-02T20:59:23.010-07:00

my silly predictions for 2005-ish BEA dies or gets absorbed, maybe by IBM JBoss becomes the leading J2ee app server in high-profile deployments RSS / Atom start to show up in consumer devices Telecom companies start getting REALLY pinched by VOIP, mergers become essential to survival 1st generation of something better than iPod, smartphones, or PDAs comes out, but too expensive for

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