LoonyPandora

Whilst a nice little article, I need to point out a factual error.

    The problem with consuming a REST API with client-side
    Javascript with AJAX is that most browsers only give
    access to two HTTP request methods - GET and POST

All modern-ish browsers as far back as Firefox 3 and IE 6 support other HTTP methods when called via JavaScript [1]. It's HTML forms where support for different methods is not present. If you have an app that relies on JS you can just use the relevant methods in your .ajax() call.

You can check what methods your browser supports here [2] (JS heavy page, may slow down your browser)

[1] http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/

[2] http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-method-support

I'm disappointed that there are no Perl frameworks at all!

I've submitted a pull request[1] to rectify this gross oversight. Even though this benchmark is not particularly scientific, it still provides some meaningful data.

[1] https://github.com/seedifferently/the-great-web-framework-sh...

Because it is wrong. Time is a difficult problem to solve, it doesn't move at a constant rate, the length of days and years change. You simply cannot set a constant and have it be "correct".

It may be more performant to set time ranges as constants, but you will get in to trouble unless you know exactly what you are doing. The people at Twitter who wrote the code will be aware of the trade-offs they have made, but what happens when Jo Random developer forks it on GitHub without thinking it through because "it's fast and Twitter use it - it must be good!"

For example:

    T_1_MONTH = 2592000

Not all months have 30 days.

    T_1_SOLAR_YEAR = 31558150

A solar year, is (roughly) 31556925.25218 seconds[1].

[1]http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=seconds+in+a+solar+year

I don't want to turn this into a rumour thread, the news sites can keep people up to date.

I just want people to keep in mind that the news will be sensationalist, and not to think that the entire city is in flames.

I'm a Londoner near some of the affected areas. The sky is not falling, London is not degenerating into lawlessness, and from what I can see from my flat window, police are responding quickly.

Other areas may be different, but London is a very large city - commenters should remember that in discussions.

There is a branch of PIE that supports text-shadow which makes it even more useful.

I used it on my site re-design because we have multiple text-shadows creating a graphical effect on our logo without images.

It works really well and performance doesn't suffer noticeably. In fact with multiple box-shadows IE8 was faster to scroll than Safari 5.0!

There is a link to the press release[1] the bottom left, next to where it says "source" - All Engadget posts have it in the same place. Seemingly it's not prominent enough, but the attribution is certainly there.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe2011072...

They must've soft-launched this, as I've been using it on my feature phone for at least a month.

I assumed it was just an old app that they made before smart phones dominated the market.

It's a really nice little app.

404 at the moment - perhaps published instead of saved as a draft?

Google Cached Version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

Have a look at Authen::Passphrase::BlowfishCrypt [1]. it handles a lot of my suggestions automatically and is more suited to your general-case than my code is.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~zefram/Authen-Passphrase-0.007/lib/A...

I also blogged about this topic on blogs.perl.org the other week with some code examples that work a little better [1].

Your code appears to work, but is subtly broken in a few ways. Firstly since you don't return the hash in the "standard" format ("$2a", "$", two digits, "$", salt as 22 base 64 digits, '.', and 31 base 64 digits for the pass), one can't tell what work factor was used to create the hash - making it hard to verify a password. Secondly the salt isn't sufficiently random, there are modules out there that provide more randomness for cryptographic applications such as this.

It's nice to see people blogging about this kind of thing for perl, but it's important that the code is correct.

[1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_aitken/2011/07/safely-stor...

I think you need a little more instruction. What does this do?

My first thought was that it would generate a QR code for any string you provide, through url hacking. (i.e anything after the domain name is used as the string to encode) - This doesn't seem to be the case.

Very little instruction on the website, nothing on twitter, and no info here… Could you shed a little light please?

EDIT: As tiwilliam informed me, it uses the HTTP referer to create a QR code that contains a link back to that same HTTP referer. If it is not present, the default is lilqr.com.

It's a nice idea, but I don't see the value in having a QR code that links to the page you are already on? A bit more explanation is still necessary :)

It's a good first attempt, but it's not quite there yet and won't replace gitbox in my workflow.

The big problem is that it will only work with the origin remote [1]. This means no pulling in upstream changes, then pushing it to your fork - doing this on multiple branches with the command line is a pain, and something a GUI would be great for.

The interface feels a little half baked too, e.g why the multiple overlapping sidebars - one blue, one black, why not just merge them?

[1]http://mac.github.com/help

Agree with people here. Absolutely yes.

True Story: I was in the same boat. Usually people have never used it, but google for it to verify it's real - and are suitably impressed.

However, one day I interviewed at a company who had not only heard of it, but actually used it in production! I couldn't help but blurt out "Really? The code is horrible isn't it." - This turned the tide of the interview, as it showed the interviewers I had the ability to objectively review code and learn from my mistakes.

I was hired, but had to suffer being the butt of all jokes for a long time.

This is for employees of other companies to buy Apple gear with the corporate discount. Like a bonus scheme, but instead of gift vouchers you get an online store.

Though when I was at Apple, the student discount was more than the staff discount.

Erik Spiekermann isn't very happy about the new typeface. He did the original, and says this one is bland [1]. Though it is, the old face was shockingly dated and needed replacing [2].

Nokia Pure is a nice readable typeface, very appropriate for use on mobile devices, elegant in it's own way - but too bland. They should've saved some money and just said "Frutiger".

At least they aren't setting their logo in it.

[1] https://twitter.com/espiekermann/status/51173410415452160

[2] http://twitpic.com/4edrh7

Schemes like this multiplication technique are fascinating, the patterns one can see are beautiful. The fact they are not taught in schools is scandalous. Their use is actively discouraged.

My Dad bought me a book about the Trachtenberg System of Basic Mathematics[1] when I was a kid, it had all sorts of funky new ways to solve maths problems just like this. My primary school hated it, they marked me down for not showing my working and doing it the wrong way. I was brilliant at maths mainly because of this book, but didn't get the extra marks for doing it the "right" way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system

Gist of the article is that if you create an OS X installer package with a malicious postflight script, you can do naughty things.

Not new information - by design the postflight script can do anything that a regular shell script can do. If I recall correctly, this is how the fake Office 2004 "trojan" did it's work.

Make sure your product is better than your competitor's. You shouldn't be scared of a customer doing a fair comparison of your product against someone else's.

Sounds quite similar to the serial number format used on Apple products until recently. First 2 characters were the country / factory of manufacture, 3rd digit was the year, 4th and 5th were the week. The next three were the machines actual unique serial number, and the final three were a model identifier.

Seems to be pretty common to store this information in "plain text" in the serial number. I'm sure it has advantages over just giving every product a UUID and having a lookup in a database somewhere, perhaps in doing product recalls - you can specify a range of numbers that are affected?

I've been using this one for many many years. Is your version better / more efficient in any way?

http://david.dojotoolkit.org/recss.html

I went on the "super noodle diet" - Which consisted of eating 2 packets of instant noodles per day, seasoned with lots of pepper to make it seem more filling. As a treat on a Sunday I had a 99p pizza too! I paid for this with the contents of my penny jar. When that had run out, I survived for another week on cornflakes with golden syrup instead of milk, which were the only things I had in my cupboard.

I lost ~30lbs in the 2 months I was doing this. In the end the startup failed, I swallowed my pride and got my old job back, the one I'd left a year previous to work full time on my startup.

Working with both Ovid and Avar makes this a great opportunity to learn from two big-hitters in the perl world.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Helvetica-like". OS X Uses Lucida Grande as a system font, which is quite different to Helvetica (Lucida Grande == Humanist, Helvetica == Neo Grotesque)

I can't vouch for Windows, but if memory serves it's system font is also a humanist style.

TIMTOWTDI (for the non perl guys, there is more than one way to do it - the motto of Perl)

Mojolicious is very cool, has strong leadership, direction, and is very opinionated.

I prefer Dancer, and believe it fills a slightly different niche - but the competition between both can only be a good thing.

Note the author of the article states in the comments:

> Hardware is pure speculation -- my source didn't have any details for me. Launch date and carrier he did have

So don't get too excited about the specs, they are plucked from the ether.