2010 Feb 23, 10:04Android augmented reality app that does facial recognition and then hovers icons for that person's profiles on various websites.
augmented-reality mobile internet identity android phone technical 2010 Feb 23, 9:38Think you're a bad ass having installed some obscure and difficult to use Linux distro, then prove how hardcore of a Linux nerd you are with '...Suicide Linux, where any unrecognized command is
parsed as "rm -rf /"...'
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buzz google api reference web technical 2010 Feb 22, 4:16On cheating at Four Square. Man becomes mayor of North Pole among other things.
hack game security humor article geo gps cheat social api technical 2010 Feb 22, 3:19Cristian Adam has created a HTML5 Video plugin for IE. Cool!
html html5 video plugin ie7 ie8 ie technical web browser cristian-adam 2010 Feb 21, 2:58Basics of the EPUB format.
epub book ebook html css xhtml technical 2010 Feb 19, 2:43A Googler's thoughts on tuning TCP params for better perf.
google performance network tcp technical 2010 Feb 19, 2:27Raymond's tips for modifying x86 assembly code while debugging.
tutorial debug debugging technical assembly x86 windows raymond-chen tips 2010 Feb 4, 2:01On the crappy licensing of the H.264 and MPEG codecs in popular video encoding software.
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Raymond Chen has some thought experiments useful for discovering various kinds of stupidity in software design:
Tim Berners-Lee's principles of Web design includes my favorite: Test of Independent Invention. This has a thought experiment containing the construction of the MMM (Multi-Media Mesh) with
MRIs (Media Resource Identifiers) and MMTP (Muli-Media Transport Protocol).
The Internet design principles (RFC 1958) includes the Robustness Principle: be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving. A good one, but applied too liberally can lead to interop issues. For instance, consider web browsers.
Imagine one browser becomes so popular that web devs create web pages and just test out their pages in this popular browser. They don't ensure their pages conform to standards and accidentally end
up depending on the manner in which this popular browser tolerantly accepts non-standard input. This non-standard behavior ends up as de facto standard and future updates to the standard
essentially has had decisions made for it.
technical design principles software development 2010 Jan 29, 10:28"Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies." Examines HTTP headers and browser features and reports if your
configuration is unique (mine is). Good info for anyone looking at creating an anonymous browsing plugin or service
web security privacy eff education identity surveillance cookies cookie anonymity anonymous technical 2010 Jan 29, 10:16Talk of Firefox on Android. Sounds good to me!
mobile google android firefox web browser technical 2010 Jan 28, 4:20Graph of encodings used by documents on the web. Unicode based encodings are thankfully on the rise.
unicode encoding web internationalization localization utf8 text html technical 2010 Jan 28, 4:00Jonathan Zittrain on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, artificial AI, and related topics.
jonathan-zittrain video amazon mechanical-turk mechanicalturk technical 2010 Jan 27, 9:56Some of the new security features in Chrome: XSS filter, HTTPS only, HTML5 origin header, and HTML5 postMessage function.
html5 html script xss csrf chrome browser google security web technical 2010 Jan 26, 2:00The sandbox attribute for the iframe element sounds like a big pit of issues. Includes a new mime type text/html-sandbox to put on content that shouldn't be rendered as html in browsers that don't
support the sandbox attribute.
html html5 sandbox security web browser iframe mime mimetype html-sandbox technical 2010 Jan 26, 1:47Details on Safari and iPhone's HTML5 offline app cache.
html web technical html5 cache safari iphone 2010 Jan 26, 1:46Intro to TOR the onion router.
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