Learning something new every day.
Cloud Computing News – Amazon storing more than 449B objects in S3
That is crazy impressive both the sheer number of objects stored and the growth rate.
codahale.com – A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don’t use MessageDigest.isEquals)
Nice intro to timing attacks along the way.
GitHub – slang
Neat set of tools for string manipulation.
Fabien Potencier – The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?
Huge speed hits using the ternary operator on larger variables.
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).
Shawn Blanc – Reading on the iPad
Not having an iPad I can’t speak from experience but it certainly vibes with how it feels when I’ve tried digital version of magazines such as Wired.
Wired – How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education
Some really impressive work going on here.
Identity at Mozilla – How BrowserID differs from OpenID
Some really impressive work from the team at Mozilla, defiantly simpler to get started and using than OpenID and eliminates the which OpenID provider did I use for this site.
Hacker News – Self Extracting PNG
Wow that is some impressive work.
Got any book recommendations?