Thawte revokes personal email certificates - oh yes, I still remember the silly discussions that Verisign and Thawte as central signature authorities were much more trustworthy than the grassroots web-of-trust with PGP at that time. Funny, PGP (and now gpg) keys still work and will continue to work. And since a real web-of-trust was established there, it doesn't matter if a server in the gpg signature chain is shut down. But of course, the commercial certificates are much better ...
Archive October 2009
MacRuby » MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 - the project is getting more and more interesting. The LLVM-based VM is one of the most exciting topics lately. I wish someone would do something similar for Python as well.
Amazon goes global with new Kindle - well, I think I'll rather continue to be a user of an e-reader with cracked DRM and without remote deletion of books. In some cases, offline is better than online.
Finding Similar Items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop Streaming - worth a look, sounds quite interesting.
I like Unicorn because it's Unix - good overview of a pre-forking web server in Ruby. Something like this based on the existing tools for Python would be nice. Maybe I should tackle my toolserver again and switch to multiprocessing and rebuild the whole communication stuff around processes.
Münsterland Giro
Münsterland Giro
Just because I still find the picture of racing cyclists on the Prinzipalmarkt quite strange. I really should be used to it by now, it's been happening for several years.
shedskin - hmm, I think I haven't seen that one yet. Compile Python code to C++. That could be interesting for one project or another.
Lawyer Günther convicted of aiding and abetting fraud - is this the beginning of the end for extortionate cease-and-desist letters?
EC2 and Ubuntu - Alestic.com - ready-made AMIs for setting up Ubuntu-based EC2 instances.
Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for JavaScript - I have no idea if I already had this and I'm too lazy to check, but it's interesting enough for a repost.
Dynamic Web Development with Seaside - and since I just came across it, an open book about Seaside. So you can start hacking right away. Everyone should check out Seaside, even if they come from Ruby or Python or PHP corners, it's just one of the most exciting web frameworks out there.
GNU Smalltalk - as an old Smalltalker (Methodworks anyone??) I always take a look at what's happening there. GNU Smalltalk was long the stepchild of Smalltalks, but meanwhile it has really gained a lot. Especially the support for Cairo and LibSDL brings some possibilities for graphics and Seaside is the part for web applications par excellence (with Swazoo as the web server underneath). And a native web framework of its own is already available with Iliad. And with SandstoneDB there is a persistence layer for objects. And the biggest disadvantage of GNU Smalltalk - the lack of a graphical environment - becomes a real advantage for web applications, because headless GNU Smalltalk is trivial. The next version 3.2 will be really exciting.
Winclone - because I've been wondering all the time how I can properly back up my Bootcamp partition - this makes it simple and easy from OS X (which is where I spend most of my time).
Roman Polanski - since Johnny has closed the comments, my comment here. Polanski admitted to committing the rape and knowing how old she was. No, having sexual intercourse and anal sex with a 13-year-old girl whom you previously made compliant with drugs is not "seduction". It is absurd that so many people from the film industry are now taking to the barricades and thinking something like this should simply be forgotten. No, the fact that the victim has now forgiven him does not change anything. He did it. He admitted it himself. There is no discussion about the "if", but only about the "how much" - years in prison. Damn it, he raped a minor. Why do you want to defend someone like that? This advocacy for Polanski is a slap in the face of every raped and abused girl.
Chicago Boss - the no-nonsense MVC framework for Erlang - no idea what will come of it, but the beginning already looks quite interesting.
Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD - interesting article about SSDs and their performance behavior. Particularly interesting from the perspective that SSDs are increasingly being tried as an alternative to high-performance disk systems.
My final Ricoh GR Digital III impressions - interesting, as Wouter just takes photos and doesn't look at pixels. If he says he was a bit disappointed with the image quality, then you can take it seriously in the sense of "it would also affect me if I used it". But in any case, it will be the 20mm for the GH1 first, which is compact enough for starters.