clive boulton's blog: Archive

April 2010

30 posts

Ruby on Rails Security Guide → guides.rubyonrails.org

securitynotes:

Official RailsGuide covering the following areas of concern for Rails:

Sessions

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Redirection and Files

Intranet and Admin security

Mass assignment

User management

Injection

Another one of my new Tumblr thingys. Also, important info for making the internets.

Apr 30, 20106 notes

#ruby #security #rubyonrails

“The organization cares about what the leader cares about. If the leader doesn’t demonstrate every day that he cares about your customers and your product, then the organization won’t either. Do something every day to demonstrate this caring.” —From Marty Cagan of SVPG newsletter, where he is referring to Dany Shader source of the ‘quote’ (via edview)

IronRuby Unleashed: An Interview with Shay Friedman → informit.com

Shay: IronRuby is a Ruby implementation that runs on top of the .NET framework. It is built on top of the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), which in turn, is based on the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). … This architecture generates a wonderful result — integration with any other CLR- and DLR-based language like C#, VB.NET and IronPython.

Apr 27, 2010

#ironruby #shay friedman #Jimmy Schementi

“We could all do with a bit more standing up.” —A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit - NYTimes.com (via lwu)

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Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore → www-cs.stanford.edu

Apr 22, 2010

#map reduce #stanford cs

EdView - My humble view on things out there: Pitch like a pro; the 6-minute pitch → edview.tumblr.com

Taken from FastCompany November 2009

WHAT WE DO Kick off with one simple sentence: “My name is X , and we do Y.”

VALUE PROPOSITION State what problem your product is solving.

HOW IT WORKS Use plain language (not jargon). Explain how it works and why it’s better.

BUSINESS MODEL…

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#Malcolm McLaren #Permanently Cool

Apr 15, 20101 note

#chirp #biz #ev #dickc #twitter #resonance #tension

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Apr 14, 2010

#mobile sharing #chi2010 #hci

Apr 13, 20107 notes

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Apr 12, 2010

#rsi conference #consumerization of enterprise #security

“The new results show that these highly sensitive individuals also pay more attention to detail, and have more activity in certain regions of their brains when trying to process visual information than those who are not classified as highly sensitive… Individuals with this highly sensitive trait prefer to take longer to make decisions, are more conscientious, need more time to themselves in order to reflect, and are more easily bored with small talk, research suggests.” —Study Sheds Light on What Makes People Shy | LiveScience (via lwu)

Apr 11, 20102 notes