22.9.2009 von pit.

Ajax apps provides us with rich and responsive user interfaces. And aside all code reductions modern frameworks provide, if you use firebug or fiddler or tamperdata one easily thinks about further optimization. Microsoft research has researched this topic and created Doloto. Take a look at their paper and of course at the tool itself and yes, you need windows for it, but i still like the paper

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22.6.2009 von pit.

The people behind MobileHacking.org has put together a useful collection of variuos parts needed to craft together an application, or at least obtain an idea whats available. especially the mindmaps under application mapping offers you a glimpse about what combinations are possible, evem you have to figure out what works together. nevertheless thanks for he list

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20.6.2009 von pit.

research teams from LASEC (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) and Inverse Path have taken a close look at the electromagnetic radiation that is generated every time a computer keyboard is tapped. take a look at COMPROMISING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMANATIONS OF WIRED AND WIRELESS KEYBOARDS. There are other good articles at LASEC. This one gives an overview of various user-aided message authentication protocols and their applications.

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8.6.2009 von pit.

ephorie provides a nice sourcing map. The explanations are in German, the intentions are to provide some structure in the ever growing jungle surounding the term sourcing

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27.4.2009 von pit.

As Uwe reminded me yesterday, that I haven’t posted for a long time, lets start briefly about some thoughts from foobar about writing a Linux virus. It’s not always kernel hacking

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27.4.2009 von pit.

PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. W3C has specified the API’s and Events. I think widgets will definitly become one of the next big things in mobile development. A widget is essential a zipped website. the creator takes the html file including css javascript and images, zips it together and adds the .wgt extension. The benefit is, that it will be only loaded once. needed data is fetched via ajax. unfortunatly we aren’t at the point that the widget toolkits are fully compatible, but I gues this is just a matter of time. Until we reach this point, phonegap is defintly an alternative to start with as it currently covers iphone,android and (limited) blackberry. And I’m confident, other will follow…

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6.2.2009 von pit.

looks promising, but I have only skimmed through the webpages and looked at the activity in forums/wiki. The ezix project hosts beside other nice projects one called lshw which is a hardware lister. Its a similar project as dmidecode. seems also promising as a free asset management tool all these tools can be used standalone, but as it seems, the project tries to put many of those under one hood

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6.2.2009 von pit.

This report> is a nice read about current research activities in the DB space. Companies like Greenplum and Aster Data have recently integrated mapreduce in memory. Aster Data report in their blog and in white papers about how they’ve implemented the functionality, with an enterprise customer as target in contrary to hadoop and googles mapreduce , which they see more being used by engineers.

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6.2.2009 von pit.

Lisa Nelson from the University of Liverpool provides a script to shutdown idling PC’s called powerdown. It uses two sysinternals tools to achieve this task. I think a good and easy way for oraganizations and private persons to reduce the energy bill. at least worth a try.

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18.11.2008 von pit.

After looking at some videos created by Michael Wesch, I realized Camstudio, which he apperently used for creating those. Wesch researches new ways of teaching using Web (2.0) technologies. actually he is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction, but I’m pretty sure that I can’t remember those terms tomorrow:-). pretty cool, also take a look at his blog. I also liked another guy mentioning, that he thinks this camstudio recordings are tomorrow’s PPT’s

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