February 3, 2008 – 10:35 pm
I’m sure I should be embarrassed to admit this, but when it comes to 21st century staple TV genres, my hands-down favorite is what I like to call “The Evil Psychology Experiment” sub-genre of reality TV. I was just thinking back through my list of favorites, and was going to claim that “The Joe Schmo [...]
December 21, 2007 – 2:32 pm
One thing I love about working with software is that no matter how much you know, you can still be surprised by tiny little quirks that lurk in every software system. Two great examples from today: Firefox is happy to follow HTTP redirects while trying to fetch an image. IE seems to not be so [...]
December 3, 2007 – 5:42 pm
I’ve noticed an ever-increasing trend on my favorite laptop that sometimes it just doesn’t feel like hearing every keypress. It’ll often leave some random letter out of a word if I’m typing at full speed. Today, I finally spotted that it only happens in my web browser, and furthermore, I noticed that it only happens [...]
November 27, 2007 – 10:58 pm
One thing that concerns many people about OpenID is what happens if their provider goes out of business or if they want to switch to another provider for some other reason. At Vidoop, we believe that users deserve to always be in control of their online identity, even if it means that they’d like to [...]
November 27, 2007 – 10:41 pm
I love some of the kookier OpenID authentication schemes that are out there. Here’re a few examples of what I mean: http://www.jkg.in/openid/ — Does not do authentication at all. Anyone can claim any URL as their own. I call it "OpenID with null authentication". http://openid.xmpp.za.net/ — Sends a message to your Jabber (XMPP) account to [...]
November 7, 2007 – 8:04 pm
I talked to Dr. M. H. Samadzadeh‘s software engineering class at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK today. I’ve posted my slides. If you heard the talk, I’m eager to hear any feedback that you may have.
October 22, 2007 – 5:20 pm
There are just short of 1.3 zillion OpenID concerns out there (no, seriosly–I counted), most of them well-intentioned but overblown. And most of them are just as applicable to username and password. The biggest difference is that everyone has experience with username and password and knows all of the best practices for dealing with them. [...]
October 21, 2007 – 5:42 pm
I spent Friday and Saturday at the second annual Tulsa Tech Fest, a gathering of IT & software professionals from Tulsa and the surrounding area. Overall, it was a good event. Friday’s attendance was incredible, coming in somewhere around 700 attendees according to some reports. I got a chance to meet and talk to a [...]
October 20, 2007 – 7:51 pm
Here are the notes from my Tulsa Tech Fest 2007 talk "Developing Software with Security in Mind". I describe 10 rules that everyone should keep in mind while developign software: Learn about security or it will teach you. Security knowledge goes obsolete quickly. Your team should have a security geek (or more). Befriend the security [...]
October 15, 2007 – 3:47 pm
I don’t have a Facebook account. I don’t do social networking today because I refuse to go to the trouble of doing redundant work on the Internet every time the fashion changes. (LinkedIn got the one exemption here, but I don’t recall why.) All of you who built a list of LiveJournal friends, and then [...]