Grady Booch on future of software development
IBM developerWorks:
Grady Booch polishes his crystal ball
“the fatal flaw of web services”
Mark Baker: Why bad design always trumps hype; the fatal flaw of Web services [April 02, 2003]
“First, bad design cannot be masked. And second, that Web services’ lack of use of a coordination language is an example of bad design.”
Buffer Overflow Solutions in OpenBSD
OpenBSD: Buffer Overflow “Solutions” – KernelTrap
Theo de Raadt: “In the last while, a couple of people in OpenBSD have been putting
some buffer overflow “solutions” into our source tree; under my
continual prodding. I thought I would summarize some of these and how
they fit together, since what I have seen written up so far has been
wildly inaccurate. (Bad reporter, no cookie).
These are, in short form:
1) PROT_* purity
2) W^X
3) .rodata
4) propolice”
[See also grsecurity
and
Immunix
which includes StackGuard.]
NYSERNet settles
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle: Web firm settles U.S. grant case
Horatio: Authenticated Network Access
Horatio: Authenticated Network Access (U Texas CS Dept)
Hutson receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Grant
UB Reporter: Hutson receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Grant
“This NYSTAR Faculty Development grant was used to recruit a key investigator in biostastics/statistical genetics to support the infrastructure of the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.”
Why XML doesn’t suck
Tim Bray:
Why XML Doesn’t Suck
the mismatch of JVM/virtual machines and dynamic languages
Jon Udell with links to interesting comments re Jython, SmallScript, and Parrot.
