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Posted on April 12, 2014June 16, 2019 by: Leona

heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us

It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …

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Posted on October 14, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

You want me to WHAT my phone?

So while our Microsoft Exchange Server has always been a tad pissy with my Android phone, my employer has reconfigured it recently to up the ante: …

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Posted on April 2, 2012July 11, 2019 by: Leona

rubix rhymes

That’s the state of my rubix 4-cube, which I recently re-noticed, hiding behind a vase. The core was not too bad, but the edges were …

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Posted on April 19, 2011July 29, 2019 by: Leona

The Jaron Lanier effect

The Jaron Lanier interference pattern was bound to ripple its way back into my awareness, sooner or later. I blame this squarely on how long …

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Posted on November 11, 2009July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Scribblenauts, and the law of requisite variety

When I came across the game scribblenauts – or more specifically, when enraptured, evangelising s’nauting colleagues at work jumped me and made me partake – …

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Posted on October 14, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Malicious engineering

Quivering there in the shadows of an axed registry, lying low, this little app has to hide itself, feed itself, load itself, talk to its …

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Posted on July 29, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Analytics : retro-fitting measurability – part 2

In my previous post on analytics and retrofitting measurability, I talked about the first two phases of getting to grips with metrics and analytics in …

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Posted on July 27, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Analytics : retro-fitting measurability – part 1

Measurability operates over an incredible range. It’s the ‘gravity’ of the metrics universe. Why do I say so? Because it is a quality attribute that …

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Posted on July 5, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Playing in a sandbox: what every software developer should be encouraged to do

Updated 2019 : lolz… the modern ubiquity of git, config and env files makes this whole post laughable 🙂 Updated: 2009-12-24It amazes me how often …

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Posted on May 30, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

re-understanding computing

I was reading this blog post on the expanding notion of what computing is, over at Broader perspective.  I like the inclusion of ideas from …

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