A couple days ago, I wound up helping out a colleague on a problem he was having coming up with an appropriate test case for a piece of code in a Rails app. It reminded me that I had wanted to talk about how structuring your code affects what you are actually testing, and how that related to what you want to test.
Shamir's Secret Sharing is a mechanism by which N people may each have a piece of of information, such that when any M people come together the pieces can be used to reproduce a secret – but if only M-1 pieces are brought together, you have zero bits of the secret.
So I saw a blog post today titled “put a burger in your shell”, which showed how to use the emoji characters in Unicode 6.1 to put a cheeseburger in your terminal.
That got me to thinking: Icons can be a simple, quick-to-parse, compact means of conveying information. Perhaps some of the emoji could be used for a more practical purpose. So, I have put together a little project called BashFu to do just that.
(Cross-posted to the Cloudability Blog)
As engineers and managers we often speak of “technology debt” – the accumulated cruft and drag coefficient that make maintaining a system harder over time. Brittleness arises over time, as sure as the sun rises.
As of today, Hordes of Orcs 2 will no longer be available for purchase.
I see her coding,
see her coding like-a Matz.
I said I wish that I could code like that.
Me and her in time going tap tap tap.
A few months ago, Ruby Inside wrote about using Spork with RSpec 2 and Rails 3 in order to get a more sprightly spec run. Unfortunately, using the techniques in the article with our fledgling codebase's test suite left us with somewhat disappointing results, so I decided to dig deeper and see if I could do better.
A good friend of mine proposes the use of weather-balloon based WAPs in a mesh topology to route around censorship in conflict areas. One of the niftiest ideas I've seen in a while.
Magento Enterprise Edition is vulnerable to poisoning of its page cache under some configurations due to inappropriate trust of HTTP Host header values.
Users shopping at online stores driven by Magento EE can be redirected to arbitrary third party sites, allowing malicious entities to entice users to hand over their credit card information inappropriately.
Major – Exploit allows for content injection, and hijacking of users. Exploits have been observed in the wild.
This is just a quick brain-dump of some ideas for helpful static analyzers and the means by which they may be implemented to facilitate writing robust code for Unity.