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OSCON Slides
Update: Received an email from oreilly listing all the slides from the conference… I have been meaning to go back and collect the ruby slides from OSCON and finally got around to it. Dependency Injection: Vitally Important or Totally Irrelevant Metaprogramming Ruby Yield to the Block: The power of Blocks in Ruby I could not [...]
Tourette Syndrome
I’m sure it sounds like I have tourette’s syndrome today. I’m trying to configure Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services with a Windows 2000 domain controller. !@#$%^! I think it would be easier for me to birth a baby than to configure a microsoft server environment.
Postgres on OSX
I’m finally ramping up for longer term development on OSX. I have been impressed with the platform for the most part. Small things are annoying, like zip corrupting files you are zipping (a friend tells me this is in part due to backward compatibility with OS 9) I’m doing all my database work with Postgres [...]
Dependency Injection: Vitally Important or Totally Irrelevant
by Jim Weirich Slides at http://onestepback.org/articles/depinj Is Dependency Injection vitally important in a dynamically typed language Short version – no Medium version – maybe Long version – don’t know Who are you? Perhaps not who you think you are. Building a computer controlled coffee maker. When coffee in put – burner should be on. When [...]
OSCON 2005 – MetaProgramming
presenation by Glenn Vanderburg What is meta programming? It’s Programming your programming language Rubyist have been discovering metaprogramming. Ruby style and idioms are still changing and adapting Ruby good for metaprogramming b/c Dynamic and reflexive – everything is open – blocks allow writing new control structures – most declarations are executable statements – only slightly [...]
OCON2005 – The Latest and craftiest attacks and penetration Techniques and tools
by Nitesh Dhanjani Closed source tools not good for monitoring your own networks. Lots of times they give false positives and there is no way to verify whether the positive is correct or not. Methodology finding vulnerabilities using Google.com Using the Nessus framework Web application vulnerabilities Other useful AP tools Attack and penetration methodology Discovery [...]
Customizing Mac OSX using opensource
by Jordan Hubbard + Kevin Van Vechten recompiling software which come pre-built w/ osx Darwin is the os core of osx. Includes kernel, IOKit families, and BSD commands and libraries. Darwin source – developer.apple.com/darwin || darwinsource.opendarwing.org .tar.gz snapshots organized by release. OpenDarwin – community run site w/ standard opensource tools (bugzilla, cvs, irc, etc) Webkit [...]
OSCON 2005 – Yield to the Block: The power of Blocks in Ruby
with Matz (ruby’s father) Presentation Slides Interesting presentation. Valuable information, but slides moved really quickly. One of ruby’s biggest strengths is blocks. Increasing in popularity. 65 attendees at rubyconf in 2004 – over 200 pre-registrations for rubyconf in 2005. Reflects growing popularity of ruby. Why? Hacker preference and killer application Rails brought ruby to the [...]
OSCON 2005 – Thursday Keynote
Arrived about 15 minutes late… Transforming Software Architecture into Internetwork Architecture Not tied to any platform Extensible Generic – general purpose Federated Identifier, Formats, and Protocol Standards Internetwork Architecture of Global trade mirrors Internet/Sofware architecture. Standard containers and standard port protocol. DHH Secrets behind Ruby on Rails (same talk given at FOSCON) Ruby on rails [...]
FOSCON2005 @ FreeGeek
For anyone who was or was not able to attend OSCON for Ruby and Rails related things, FreeGeek (think through the PDXLUG) sponsored some of the ruby/rails speakers from OSCON to come down and give a talk. This was very cool. I arrived a few minutes late and DHH was speaking about rails. Very cool, [...]