CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2008

2008

December

2008-12-25

• Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage;

November

2008-11-29

• A critique of Abelson and Sussman / Why calculating is better than scheming;

2008-11-27

• Gartner's FUD;

2008-11-06

• Erlang for Concurrent Programming;

October

2008-10-29

• Why BPEL is not the holy grail for BPM;

2008-10-15

• PGP DH vs. RSA FAQ;

2008-10-14

• Fraudsters rigging Chip and PIN terminals to steal data;

2008-10-11

• Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over;

2008-10-06

• Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman;

• RMS hates cloud computing; says you should too;

September

2008-09-24

• Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots;

2008-09-10

• A Threading Model Overview;

• PostgreSQL's Transaction Model;

2008-09-09

• PurpleNumbers;

2008-09-08

• The New Classics of Computer Science;

• Erlang as middleware;

• How (not?) to go about a Programming Assignment;

August

2008-08-28

• Getting A Perspective On Man In Middle Attacks;

• EV Certificates Enhance The Bottom Line, Not Trust;

• Browser Certs Can't Force Adherence;

2008-08-27

• Revealed -- The Internet's Biggest Security Hole;

• Details of DNS Flaw Leaked -- Exploit Expected by End of Today;

• An outage: Lessons learned;

• Network notary system thwarts man-in-the-middle attacks;

• Firefox 3 -- One change too many;

2008-08-24

• Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL;

• The Challenge -- the Manageable Computer;

• GoboLinux and Replacing the FHS;

• The Utopia of Program Management;

2008-08-20

• Intelligent Versus Surrogate Keys;

• Referential Integrity -- Data Modeling Mistake 1 of 10;

• Surrogate Keys – Data Modeling Mistake 2 of 10;

• Create Data Disaster: Avoid Unique Indexes – (Mistake 3 of 10);

• Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient;

2008-08-17

• Communicating Sequential Processes;

• Newsqueak -- A Language for Communicating with Mice;

2008-08-16

• Advanced Topics in Programming Languages -- Concurrency/message passing Newsqueak;

2008-08-15

• Defeating Encrypted and Deniable File Systems -- TrueCrypt v5.1a and the Case of the Tattling OS and Applications;

• The Quixotic Quest for Invulnerability -- Assessing the Costs, Benefits, and Probabilities of Protecting the Homeland;

• Information Security and Liabilities;

• The DNS Vulnerability;

2008-08-10

• The Linux Saga: Preface;

• The Linux Saga: boot loader, initrd & Sys V;

• SVN vs. Mercurial vs. Git For Managing Your Home Directory;

• Keeping Your Life in Subversion;

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: JavaScript;

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell;

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: Python;

2008-08-07

• Tcl the Misunderstood;

2008-08-05

• There's a Lot of It About -- And everybody's doing it;

• A Conversation with Erik Meijer and José Blakeley -- The Microsoft perspective on ORM;

2008-08-02

• An Analysis of Compare-by-hash;

• Code editors renew approach to IDEs;

July

2008-07-25

• Google Summer of Code Podcast -- Episode 14 -- Samba;

2008-07-20

• The Problem with Patterns;

• The Web 2.0 Show -- Episode 45 -- GitHub;

2008-07-19

• Proliferation of Computing Languages;

• Lisp, too, is mainstream;

• Google Summer of Code Podcast -- Episode 18 -- Git;

2008-07-18

• Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters;

• Blue;

2008-07-17

• Amdahl's Law;

• Anatomy of Linux loadable kernel modules;

• Simple Lisp Implementation in Java (Ode to the Linked List);

2008-07-16

• Crash course in Applied Functional Programming;

• Incremental Development Environments;

2008-07-15

• BASE: An ACID Alternative;