O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 18, 2013

Last week, the Internet community lost a member in the on going war against the copyright industry. While I’ve never met the deceased, or even heard of the deceased before his suicide, I’m horrified. I’m horrified that the government we are asked to put so much faith in, would give someone, not that different from myself, such a ridiculous sentence.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Government 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 13, 2013

When I wrote about IE10 and the new snap mode back in October I advised using width: device-width to fix responsive design in snap mode instead of Microsoft’s recommendation, which was to use width: 320px. Using device-width is a far more future friendly approach and testing I had done on a tablet running Windows 8 showed this worked just as well.

Media 40

Media Operating System Mobile Code 40

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 15, 2013

With the help of friends Robert Seacord and David Svoboda of CERT in particular, I posted a note and link to their CERT post today because people have been misunderstanding the recent Java vulnerabilities, thinking they’re somehow really C or C++ vulnerabilities because Java is implemented in C and C++. From the post: Are the Java vulnerabilities actually C and C++ vulnerabilities?

Java 40

Java C++ Virtualization Operating System 40

O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 13, 2013

It’s all about closures. Understanding scope is paramount to coding. What can you access and what can’t you access. Closures allow us to access variables that otherwise might be awkward to pass into a function. Closures can help us out of tricky situations, but can confuse those from backgrounds with (typically) statically typed languages that may not support closing over variables.

Programming 40

Programming Code Systems Development 40