CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2010

2010

December

2010-12-31

• What’s Next for jclouds?;

• Mariano Guerra on the Efene and Erlang VM as Language Platform;

• Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages;

• Scott Chacon on Git and GitHub;

• Rich Hickey on Protocols and Clojure 1.3;

• Realism in UI Design;

2010-12-27

• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Rise of Amazon Web Services;

2010-12-26

• Ovrimos SQL Server;

2010-12-25

• Bavaria Booms, but Germans Feel Economic Malaise;

2010-12-24

• Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library;

• C++ Compilation Speed;

2010-12-22

• WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure;

• Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman;

• Lessons from WikiLeaks: decentralize, decentralize, decentralize;

• Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log;

2010-12-17

• Amazon and WikiLeaks - Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary;

• Software Monoculture;

• Full Body Scanners: What's Next?;

• Airline Security: A Waste of Money and Time;

2010-12-16

• The Ext4 Linux file system;

2010-12-15

• Resigned from EC;

2010-12-09

• The Illusion of Truth;

2010-12-08

• Phd Comics: So wrong;

2010-12-07

• Collaboration in System Administration;

2010-12-04

• Wikileaks -- News and Background;

• Common Sense and Security: Body Scanners, Accountability, and $2.4 Billion Worth of Security Theater;

• "Do Not Track" Explained;

November

2010-11-23

• An Introduction to Logsurfer;

2010-11-21

• Plan 9 –- an Integrated Approach to Grid Computing;

2010-11-20

• Linux's answer to MS-PPTP;

• Joyent & Node;

• JSON protocols (part 1);

• Designing Plan 9 -- Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow;

2010-11-16

• Changing Passwords;

• The Security of Modern Password Expiration: An Algorithmic Framework and Empirical Analysis;

2010-11-09

• Where data goes when it dies and other musings;

• The Tao of Backup;

2010-11-04

• ZeroMQ an introduction;

2010-11-01

• Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk;

• When App Engine went wrong;

October

2010-10-30

• RAID5 versus RAID10 (or even RAID3 or RAID4);

2010-10-28

• Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells;

• An Advanced Syntax-Rules Primer for the Mildly Insane;

• Let Over Lambda -- 50 Years of Lisp (Chapter 3);

2010-10-27

• Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!;

• Gardening Tips;

• The Case Against Data Lock-in;

2010-10-24

• Objects have not failed;

• Let Over Lambda -- 50 Years of Lisp (Chapter 1);

• Let Over Lambda -- 50 Years of Lisp (Chapter 2);

• Eight Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography;

• The way GitHub helped Erlang and the way Erlang helped Github;

• Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell;

• Stop using Ajax!;

2010-10-23

• Steve Vinoski on Erlang and Rest;

• Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban;

2010-10-19

• Modeling Concurrency with Actors in Java -- Lessons Learned from Erjang;

2010-10-18

• Building a distributed concurrent queue with Apache ZooKeeper;

2010-10-17

• Wiretapping the Internet;

• Stuxnet;

2010-10-14

• Counting stuff is really hard;

• SOA and Newton's Universe;

2010-10-09

• BigTable Model with Cassandra and HBase;

2010-10-02

• Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications;

• U.S. seeks to expand Internet wiretapping;

2010-10-01

• Boost network performance with libevent and libev;

September

2010-09-17

• Privacy Policy Update – October 3, 2010;

• Bruce Schneier at EWI Cybersecurity Summit 2010;

• Consumerization and Corporate IT Security;

• I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions;

• 10 Brief Responses To 700 Comments About Refusing To Answer Questions At Passport Control;

• Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system;

• Clojure and concurrency;

2010-09-14

• Web Design is 95% Typography;

• Reactions to 95% Typography;

2010-09-13

• The Evolution of Web Fonts;

2010-09-11

• The Scourge of Arial;

• ACLU Challenges Laptop Searches and Seizures at the Border;

• Hello! Students Have a Right to Keep Cell Information Private;

• Overview to the OSS-QM project;

2010-09-03

• Is Scheme Faster than C?;

• Joe Hellerstein on cloud programming;

August

2010-08-31

• Why is Gopher Still Relevant?;

2010-08-22

• EFF to Verizon: Etisalat Certificate Authority Threatens Web Security;

• Mnesia A Distributed Robust DBMS for Telecommunications Applications;

2010-08-19

• BIFURCAŢII. Cum stăm;

• WPA2 vulnerability found;

• On a New Road;

• My Thoughts on Oracle v Google;

• Learning FC++: The C++ functional programming library;

2010-08-12

• Network Tuning and Performance Guide (OpenBSD);

• Racket vs. Clojure;

2010-08-11

• PHD Comics: The Repulsor Field Explained;

2010-08-08

• Metaclass programming in Python, Part 3;

July

2010-07-30

• Going fast with DWM;

2010-07-10

• EFF Celebrates 20th Anniversary With New Animation by Nina Paley;

2010-07-08

• You're Doing It Wrong;

• GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise;

• Democracy is sick in the US, government monitors your Internet;

2010-07-02

• Popular Cryptography Magazine;

2010-07-01

• Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel;

• Aaron Quint on the State of Javascript;

• Integrity Under Attack: The State of Scholarly Publishing;

• What Matters in an Asynchronous Job Queue;

• Jt -- Java Pattern Oriented Framework;

• Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop;

June

2010-06-30

• PHD Comics: Call for Papers!;

2010-06-24

• The Joy of Programming;

• Seven Lessons on Scalability from Reddit;

2010-06-23

• Gathering statistics is important, but so is making them available to others;

2010-06-02

• Dependency-based & Event-based init daemons and launchd;

May

2010-05-27

• What is wrong with AMQP (and how to fix it);

• Necessary Changes In AMQP;

• How To Build Utterly Reliable Systems;

• Introduction to RestMS;

• XML Watch: Bird's-eye BEEP;

• XML Watch: Worm's-eye BEEP;

2010-05-24

• Stuart Halloway on Clojure and Functional Programming;

• Patterns for Cloud Computing;

• Treb Ryan on Cloud Computing and OpSource;

2010-05-19

• How to Become Linus Torvalds;

2010-05-16

• RabbitMQ: An Open Source Messaging Broker That Just Works;

2010-05-15

• Worst-Case Thinking;

• apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010;

2010-05-13

• Overspecialization can be the kiss of death for sysadmins;

2010-05-07

• Ceph: A Linux petabyte-scale distributed file system;

2010-05-06

• Firefox and the open web;

2010-05-04

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store;

• Eventually Consistent -- Revisited;

• Eventually Consistent;

• PHD Comics: Sentences;

• Teaching Programming Languages in a Post-Linnaean Age;

2010-05-01

• Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea;

April

2010-04-29

• riak -- Control your data, don't let it control you;

• Everyday mongoDB -- Open-source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database;

• Tin -- A database engine so tiny, its name had to be shortened;

2010-04-28

• Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon;

• NoSQL Ecosystem;

• SQL Databases Don't Scale;

• NoSQL in the Enterprise;

• Is dump really deprecated?;

2010-04-24

• Getting Things Done -- The Art of Stress-Free Productivity;

2010-04-23

• Review: Getting Things Done;

• Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency;

• Five things I hate about corporate IT;

2010-04-21

• HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved;

2010-04-18

• PHD Comics: Two cents on the dollar;

2010-04-06

• Web Security Trust Models;

• Why NoSQL is bad for startups;

March

2010-03-31

• Three Levels of the REST Maturity Model;

• Act Three: The Maturity Heuristic;

• Do we need WADL?;

2010-03-27

• New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates;

• Software Development Has Stalled;

• Programming in the Mid-Future;

2010-03-24

• PHD Comics: Interdisciplinary Madness!;

• Free software's second era: The rise and fall of MySQL;

2010-03-07

• Why I (now) hate Apple;

• Git Gaines Advantage over Subversion;

• POSIX IO Must Die!;

2010-03-06

• A geek's will;

• Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death;

2010-03-05

• The Duct Tape Programmer;

• Scheming is Believing;

• A Web OS? Are You Dense?;

• Versioned Symbols -- A New Level of Hell;

• Static Linking Considered Harmful;

2010-03-03

• .desktop files and security;

• How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps;

February

2010-02-24

• Sendmail Meets Erlang: Experiences Using Erlang for Email Applications;

2010-02-21

• The Inferno Shell;

2010-02-15

• A Descent into Limbo;

• The design of the Inferno virtual machine;

2010-02-14

• Plan 9 From Bell Labs;

• UTF-8 history;

• Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle;

• Ken Brown's Motivation;

2010-02-13

• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security;

• Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle, by R.P. Feynman;

• artificial ignorance: how-to guide;

2010-02-12

• GoogleSharing: A way to prevent tracking by Google;

2010-02-10

• A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy;

• What Information is "Personally Identifiable"?;

• Linux Job Scheduling;

2010-02-09

• Here comes the new cell phone etiquette;

2010-02-07

• Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0;

2010-02-06

• Understanding FastCGI Application Performance;

• WSGI Explorations in Python;

2010-02-05

• FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future;

January

2010-01-28

• Principles for Standardized REST Authentication;

2010-01-25

• Unix Pipe As Functional Language;

• Slackware Linux -- Less is more;

2010-01-24

• The Xcpu Cluster Management Framework;

• XGet: A Highly Scalable and Efficient File Transfer Tool for Clusters;

• The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9;

• A Unified Execution Model for Cloud Computing;

• KvmFS: Virtual Machine Partitioning For Clusters and Grids;

2010-01-23

• Why I (A/L)GPL;

• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All;

• A Case for Erlang;

2010-01-22

• The insecurity of OpenBSD;

2010-01-17

• SELinux and grsecurity: A Case Study Comparing Linux Security Kernel Enhancements;

2010-01-16

• Stop the autoconf insanity! Why we need a new build system;

• What’s Wrong With GNU make?;

• Dependency Management -- The irony of Make;

• How We Made GitHub Fast;

• Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC;

• Getting Erlang to talk to the outside world;

• Interview: Arch Linux Team;

• Arch Linux makes Linux fun to use again;

• I am not clueless -- or -- Myths and misconceptions about the design of GoboLinux;

2010-01-15

• What is Wrong with Make?;

• Make alternatives;

2010-01-07

• Virtual Linux;

• Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library;