John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
I have been a long-time lover of security, cryptography, and freedom. Today I wore my EFF sweatshirt into the NSA booth at the RSA Security Expo. The NSA laughed at me. Little did their booth occupants know that the EFF had gone after them recently over the AT&T domestic wiretapping affair, shown to the word [...]
This evening at the second Google Campfire, they released their Amazon EC2/S3 killer, Google AppEngine. Based in Python (2.5.2 required), It’s a developer tool that gives access to Google’s computing infrastructure and BigTable, the distributed database that Google runs on. From their blog, it features: Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies Persistent [...]
WordPress, the blog software that this blog runs on has finally released version 2.5 after six months of code revisions and updates. I’ve upgraded the blog and everything worked except for one major issue – I could no longer approve or view comments in the admin interface. If you’re having this issue with WP2.5, the [...]
At yesterday’s SFBETA meetup, I had the chance to play with PicLens, a dynamic system for displaying images in your browser, all pulled from the APIs of various web sites. It works as an adjunct to your existing browser, installing as a plugin (written in C++, or so the developer tells me.) If you connect [...]
