John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
It occurs to me that there’s hundreds of scripts, programs, and code snippets that I use on a daily basis that have just never seen the light of day.Time to change that. I’m not going to provide you with a pretty library like jwz has, but I’ll do what I can.At my day job, we [...]
Over at Pocket lint, we have what might be tomorrow’s Macworld Keynote from Steve Jobs. It sounds plausible, with many of the expected hardware and software releases, but we’ll only know what’s going on once Macworld begins. The iPhone API sounds somewhat open, but restricted (you must submit source code to Apple), with an opportunity [...]
Over at Chris Shiflett’s blog (he’s the author of Essential PHP Security) he’s got a nice writeup on foiling cross-site scripting attacks on web sites. While this is an older article ( from 2004 ), it still addresses many dangerous issues that developers continue to create in production code. One of our developers here recently [...]
If you have the unfortunate luck to upgrade to version 1.1.2 under iTunes 7.5, and you have a previously jailbroken iphone, you might find that Installer.app breaks. It breaks because /var/root/Library/Installer/Localpackages.plist still has information about all of your previously installed applications and the iTunes upgrade deletes all of the 3rd party apps that you have [...]
Hi, I’m John Adams, an Internet developer, network engineer, and Systems Administrator (I don’t sleep much.) Here I’ll discuss emerging technologies for web development (Ruby/Rails, Python, and other web frameworks), streaming media (audio and video), Syndication of content, and scaling issues related to media in general. I currently work for a medium-sized streaming media company, [...]
