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BlogsTags > ackSurvey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the PastBy Andy OramMay 15, 2013 I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, and Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of … Upward Mobility: Dump Those iOS DelegatesBy James TurnerMay 13, 2013 Because so much of iOS programming involves the delegate pattern (the UITableViewDelegate being a prime example), it’s natural that when programmers are developing their own classes that need to be able to asynchronously call back to a client class, they … Visualization of the Week: A DDoS attack on VideoLAN downloads infrastructureBy Jenn WebbMay 1, 2013 In the wake of a recent DDoS attack on open source software distributor VideoLAN, developer Ludovic Fauvet created a video visualization to show what the attack looked like. As Ryan W. Neal notes in a post at International Business Times, … A human approach to postmortem reviewsBy Jenn WebbApril 25, 2013 There is nothing pleasant about postmortem reviews following an outage, and many companies struggle to execute positive, effective reviews. In a recent interview, Dave Zwieback (@mindweather), head of infrastructure at Knewton, said that we often focus only on technical issues … Four steps to analyzing big data with SparkBy O'Reilly StrataApril 12, 2013 By Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia In the UC Berkeley AMPLab, we have embarked on a six year project to build a powerful next generation big data analytics platform: the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS). We have already … The future of big data with BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics StackBy O'Reilly StrataFebruary 18, 2013 By Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia This month at Strata, the U.C. Berkeley AMPLab will be running a full day of big data tutorials.In this post, we present the motivation and vision for the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS), and an … Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfareBy Alistair CrollJanuary 19, 2013 First, technology is good. Then it gets bad. Then it gets stable. This has been going on for a long time, likely since the invention of fire, knives, or the printed word. But I want to focus specifically on computing … A Kindle developer’s 2013 wishlistBy Sanders KleinfeldDecember 2, 2012 2012 was a good year for Kindle developers. With the unveiling of the first-generation Fire tablet in late 2011 and the release of the KF8 Mobi format in early 2012, designing beautiful ebooks for the Kindle platform became a reality. … George Church and the potential of synthetic biologyBy Mike LoukidesNovember 9, 2012 A few weeks ago, I explained why I thought biohacking was one of the most important new trends in technology. If I didn’t convince you, Derek Jacoby’s review (below) of George Church’s new book, Regenesis, will. Church is no stranger … Deconstructing a Twitter spam attackBy Peter LaflinOctober 15, 2012 There has been a lot of discussion recently about the effect fake Twitter accounts have on brands trying to keep track of social media engagement. A recent tweet spam attack offers an instructive example. On the morning of October 1, … Faster and stronger: Looking back on Velocity 2012 July 10, 2012 Mike Loukides highlights talks from Velocity 2012, including: Bryan McQuade on the importance of understanding the full stack, Dr. Richard Cook on failures and complex systems, Mike Christian on redundant data centers, and John Rauser on the value of outliers. Passage of CISPA in the U.S. House highlights need for viable cybersecurity legislationBy Alex HowardApril 27, 2012 The passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has raised grave concerns about is potential effect on digital privacy and civil liberties. Passage of CISPA in the U.S House highlights need for viable cybersecurity legislation
By Alex HowardApril 27, 2012 The passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has raised grave concerns about is potential effect on digital privacy and civil liberties. Four short links: 10 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 10, 2012 The Instagram Architecture (High Scalability) -- great summary of the Instagram team's post about the technology that runs Instagram. Lots of Python goodness in here. Mosh -- ssh that lets you roam and stay connected. UTF-8 native. Android Economics -- working back from Google's declared valuation of Android royalties to figure out how much they have and how it's... Four short links: 3 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 3, 2012 Why Our Kids Should Be Taught To Code (Guardian) -- if we don't act now we will be short-changing our children. [...] their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don't have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of... Passwords and interviews March 26, 2012 A candidate that forks over a social media password during an interview could become an employee that gives out a pasword in other situations. Employers aren't making that connection. Four short links: 19 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 19, 2012 Examining His Own Body (Science Now) -- Stanford prof. has sequenced his DNA and is now getting massively Quantified Self on his metabolism, infections, etc. This caught my eye: George Church, who has pioneered DNA sequencing technology and runs the Personal Genome Project* at Harvard Medical School in Boston that enrolls people willing to share genomic and medical information... Four short links: 16 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 16, 2012 Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and Computer Vision (video) -- using a water cannon, computer video, Arduino, and Python to keep marauding squirrel hordes under control. See the finished result for Yakkity Saxed moist rodent goodness. Soundbite -- dialogue search for Apple's Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro. Boris Soundbite quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase... Four short links: 1 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 1, 2012 Crowdsourcing Radiation Data in Japan (Freaklabs) -- wardriving pollution detection. Backyard Brains -- measuring electrical activity of a neuron in a cockroach leg. Astonishing how much science is within the reach of backyard hackers now. (via BoingBoing) Cotton Candy Stick Pre-Orders -- a $200 Android computer on a USB stick, with HDMI out etc. Raspberry Pi Launches -- $35... Four short links: 14 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 14, 2012 Why I Hate The STOCK Act (Clay Johnson) -- an attempt to reform insider trading within government, but because Congress exempts itself from substantial penalties then it has little effect where it's needed most. We won't see change on the issues that matter to us (copyright, due process for Internet takedowns, privacy, etc.) while the lawmakers are distracted by... Business-government ties complicate cyber securityBy Howard WenFebruary 6, 2012 Is an attack on a U.S. business' network an attack on the U.S. itself? "Inside Cyber Warfare" author Jeffrey Carr discusses the intermingling of corporate and government interests in this interview. The hidden language and "wonderful experience" of product reviews January 9, 2012 How much is an Amazon review — good or bad — worth? Computer scientist and NYU professor Panagiotis Ipeirotis analyzed the text in thousands of Amazon reviews to find out. The hidden language and "wonderful experience" of product reviewsBy Ciara ByrneJanuary 9, 2012 How much is an Amazon review — good or bad — worth? Computer scientist and NYU professor Panagiotis Ipeirotis analyzed the text in thousands of Amazon reviews to find out. Top Stories: January 2-6, 2012 
By Mac SlocumJanuary 6, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Alistair Croll explained why the information economy is giving way to the feedback economy, Fred Trotter examined the epatient movement, and we looked at the three big stories that will shape the developer world in the months ahead. The feedback economyBy Alistair CrollJanuary 4, 2012 We're moving beyond an information economy. The efficiencies and optimizations that come from constant and iterative feedback will soon become the norm for businesses and governments. The feedback economy January 4, 2012 We're moving beyond an information economy. The efficiencies and optimizations that come from constant and iterative feedback will soon become the norm for businesses and governments. Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackers 
By Jeffrey CarrDecember 5, 2011 Before organizations embrace the efficiencies and cost savings of cloud services, they should also closely consider the security repercussions and liabilities attached to the cloud. Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackersBy Jeffrey CarrDecember 5, 2011 Before organizations embrace the efficiencies and cost savings of cloud services, they should also closely consider the security repercussions and liabilities attached to the cloud. Four short links: 1 December 2011
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 1, 2011 Cutting Their Own Throats (Charlie Stross) -- DRM on ebooks gives Amazon a great tool for locking ebook customers into the Kindle platform. This essay is gold and so very true. Read, believe. v1.0 of Arduino Out -- this is the dev environment, with language additions and lots of features in the libraries. Glad to see the 1.0 stamp... Four short links: 16 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 16, 2011 Q&A with Rob O'Callahan (ComputerWorld) -- an excellent insight into how Mozilla sees the world. In particular how proprietary mobile ecosystems are the new proprietary desktop ecosystems, and how the risks for the web are the same (writing for one device, not for all). Bikes That Charge USB Devices -- German bicycle maker Silverback has recently launched two bikes... Four short links: 3 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 3, 2011 Feedback Without Frustration (YouTube) -- Scott Berkun at the HIVE conference talks about how feedback fails, and how to get it successfully. He is so good. Americhrome -- history of the official palette of the United States of America. Discovering Talented Musicians with Musical Analysis (Google Research blgo) -- very clever, they do acoustical analysis and then train up... OpenStack Foundation requires further definition
By Andy OramOctober 7, 2011 The thinness of detail about the Foundation is probably a good sign, because it means that Rackspace and its partners are seeking input from the community about important parameters. OpenStack Foundation requires further definitionBy Andy OramOctober 7, 2011 The thinness of detail about the Foundation is probably a good sign, because it means that Rackspace and its partners are seeking input from the community about important parameters. High voltage music: Behind the scenes with ArcAttack 
By James TurnerSeptember 27, 2011 ArcAttack creates a maniacal combination of music and mad science that uses half-million-volt Tesla coils to play songs. We caught up with Steve Ward, a recent addition to the ArcAttack crew, at MakerFaire NY and asked him about the technology behind the show. Getting physical with Android, NFC and the ADK September 26, 2011 Brian Jepson and Tyler Moskowite discuss Near Field Communication, the Open Android Development Kit, and the role Android can play in hardware hacking. Look at Cook sets a high bar for open government data visualizationsBy Alex HowardSeptember 7, 2011 One of the best recent efforts at visualizing open government data can be found at LookatCook.com, which tracks government budgets and expenditures from 1993-2011 in Cook County, Illinois. Building data startups: Fast, big, and focused August 9, 2011 The emergence of data startups highlights the democratizing consequences of a maturing big data stack. Companies can now build offerings and turn their focus to developing analytics and services. Building data startups: Fast, big, and focusedBy Michael DriscollAugust 9, 2011 The emergence of data startups highlights the democratizing consequences of a maturing big data stack. Companies can now build offerings and turn their focus to developing analytics and services. Open minds and open source community August 8, 2011 The c-chair of OSCON reflects on the big ideas that I was hearing from the conference, as the open source community continues on its journey "from disruption to default". Top Stories: August 1-5, 2011
By Mac SlocumAugust 5, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: The fragility of our modern systems was made clear to Tim O'Reilly during a recent trip, Jonathan Reichental defined the G+ Effect, and we learned what can happen when the barriers to scientific exploration come down. Science hacks chip away at the old barriers to entryBy Audrey WattersAugust 1, 2011 How can opening access to scientific data, equipment and lab space spur innovation? BioCurious' Eri Gentry and Ariel Waldman from Spacehack.org share a few ideas. Science hacks chip away at the old barriers to entry August 1, 2011 How can opening access to scientific data, equipment and lab space spur innovation? BioCurious' Eri Gentry and Ariel Waldman from Spacehack.org share a few ideas. Science Hack Day goes global
By Mac SlocumJuly 27, 2011 The just-announced Science Hack Day Ambassador program will bring 10 people to Science Hack Day San Francisco 2011. The idea is to spread the model to more cities and countries. Visualization of the Week: An approval matrix for hackingBy Audrey WattersJuly 15, 2011 IEEE Spectrum is applying New York Magazine's pop culture "approval matrix" to a vastly different domain: hacking. Visualization of the Week: An approval matrix for hacking July 15, 2011 IEEE Spectrum is applying New York Magazine's pop culture "approval matrix" to a vastly different domain: hacking. Four short links: 14 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 14, 2011 Digging into Technology's Past -- stories of the amazing work behind the visual 6502 project and how they reconstructed and simulated the legendary 6502 chip. To analyze and then preserve the 6502, James treated it like the site of an excavation. First, he needed to expose the actual chip by removing its packaging of essentially “billiard-ball plastic.” He eroded... Four short links: 7 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 7, 2011 Commodore 64 PC -- gorgeous retro look with fairly zippy modern internals. (via Rob Passarella) Designing Github for Mac -- a retrospective from the author of the excellent Mac client for github. He talks about what he learned and its origins, design, and development. Remember web development in 2004? When you had to create pixel-perfect comps because every element... What VMware's Cloud Foundry announcement is about
By Andy OramApril 13, 2011 By now, the popular APIs for IaaS have been satisfactorily emulated so that you can move your application fairly easily from one vendor to another. But until now, the PaaS situation was much more closed. Drop In Anytime... We're Family!
By Gene McCullaghApril 3, 2011 There's something new over at Adobe! A new feedback site has been launched over at photoshop.com! You can get there directly by going to feedback.photoshop.com. It looks to be a great way for users and the Photoshop Family teams to interact and discover new and exciting ideas for future versions of all the Photoshop Family applications. Whether it's Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Camera Raw, and yes, Lightroom, there is a way to not only offer up your ideas and suggestions but also interact and elaborate on them. Browser-based privacy controls come with caveats March 17, 2011 The IE9 browser update, and reportedly the upcoming Firefox 4 update, include do-not-track options for users. It's a step toward increased digital privacy, but truly effective privacy tools will likely need to come from above the browser level. 1 to 50 of 64 Next Stay Connected
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