Apple’s OSX iterations have been known to be some of the more securely designed operating systems on the planet. There is no real threat from viruses under OSX because of it’s strict use of access rights, built into it’s BSD base which regulates the access rights of every user on the system. However, basic security in their user interface could be compromised by a very simple, very useful feature known as “Spaces“, a feature lifted and rebranded from X Windows and Amiga (reference: Wikipedia), through a effective Denial of Service.
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Every day I spent my time researching new ways to do things I have done for years, for example this weekend I spent 27 hours researching a new way to present Java EE HTTP uploads using AJAX, Servlets and EJB's. Yeah I know - blah blah, "we all do that kind of thing, who cares". But AH! I have been doing the same thing for something we are all familiar with. MySpace! Yes its rubbish, yes its been hacked together from ColdFusion and ASP .NET elements and YES it always seems to be broken, BUT there seems to be a massive market out there for people who want to make a quick buck from generating MySpace friend adders, or mass commenter's. They charge a fortune to download these applications to spam other MySpace users, why can't I make a free one? screw those guys… lets open source it! So I thought - How hard can it be? so I started to investigate and I was quite excited as to what I found. Continue reading ‘Hacking MySpace - The Basics - P1′
We have all been there, a big job to start - a bespoke system to develop or build or integrate or what ever it is that you do. You know what has to be done but where do you start? That blasted blank whiteboard in front of you, mountains of notes and sketch UML diagrams. Putting a pen to paper for the first time on a large project can be so looming, making that first jump into building what seems like a skyscraper of technology can be so off-putting that you procrastinate and digress until you are dangerously running late into the project and have to start hacking to make things work properly instead of building them right from the start. Continue reading ‘Blank Paper Syndrome?’
Food for thought, something I would like to get feedback on, enviromental detachment from prosecuted activity. What do I mean by this? With the advent of technologies that we have today, it is becoming increasingly more standard/popular to telecommute taskings than to jointly, in communion, attack a project as a sole group of integrated professionals. Where does this lead us? Is everyone to become a 'freelance'… anything? Can a whole-team concept be effectively transmitted and sustained across wires, electrical circuits, fiber optics, microwaves and light energy for any extended period of time? Does this shift us into the next step in evolution of the wired/connected generation? Do the consequences gain as dramatic an impact when business decisions are corrupted, poorly executed or erroneous? Continue reading ‘Environmental detachment, what is it gaining us?’
Native compiled applications are what we all use every day, that word processor, this web browser. But just what is the difference between all the other systems used that are interpreted (this web blog, all those networking myspace-esque sites) even that poker game on your cellphone. What are the benefits of these different types of applciation structure? Continue reading ‘Native or interpreted, which will survive?’
