TFA's statement "And neither configuration gives you access to calendars and contacts." is just wrong, or at least misleading. While it's true that you can't access calendar info through IMAP, there is an entire Google calendar API for event manipulation (I use in my Sig webapp).
(Replying to back out erroneous "Overrated" mod on your post.) As an over-50 software engineer I can attest I was able to find a position at my former salary within 3 weeks of a surprise layoff.
If you're serving up static pages you shouldn't need much in the way or resources. I've been hosting my heavily dynamic site (see sig) on Pair.com and have found them to be quite competent.
I don't know if this is any sort of indication about the popularity of Windows 8, but I got my daughter a new Acer laptop with Windows 8 for a graduation present. She asked my to put Ubuntu on instead. Interestingly, she prefers Mate to the default Unity desktop. Aside: boots in seconds because I put/boot and/usr on the SSD drive. Very nice.
I don't see technology as inhabiting much of the universe of effective teaching. A good teacher with deep subject understanding and good communication skills is always going to be better than a crappy teacher festooned with the latest IT.
A few nights ago my band was playing at one of the local Casino showrooms, and I noticed these new LOTR machines. I did a double take! Most of you probably do not frequent Casinos (nor would I, except for my gigs there), but they have all these movie-themed slot machines; Wizard Of Oz, Dirty Dancing, etc. But LOTR machines just seem really strange for some reason. Funny.... no Ocean's Eleven ones.
I'm almost 54. Going strong and doing what I love. My wife is 45 and also a software engineer. I had a project end about 9 months ago and had to find a position within 4 weeks. Lots of work, even for a guy my age (Southern California).
Well, as a counter example, I was sick of ads on my Droid "Free" metronome app, so I wrote an ad-free one, and yes, it was produced via "Good Will". And unlike the ad-festooned apps, mine comes with both Cowbell and Fart sounds!
Things falling on people kill people. From the photos in TFA it looks like the're using unreinforced masonry. This is deadly in earthquake zones, but this situation has more to do with local building codes and enforcement than seismic potential.
In the current state of earthquake prediction, the actual prediction of *when* an earthquake will occur is not all that reliable. However the prediction of how much ground acceleration can be expected from potential seismic activity is reliable and building codes can be created accordingly.
My reading of the article was that they didn't feel Oracle was resourcing the projects appropriately so they took the ball to start their own game, so to speak. I take it the products in TFA are competitors to Microsoft's Active Directory and Oracle's own SSO system (but more distributed since they seem to be incorporating OAuth).
I'm not convinced that "tricking" an HTTP connection into staying open really buys you all that much over polling your system every 5 or 10 seconds and seeing if any of your applications need updating. A previous poster mentioned using a regular socket, which seems the right way to go about it if you really do need a persistent connection. I've written applets that do this, and it's not a big deal.
According to TFA the study sample involved college students. What about other demographic groups? For most of the more "mature" folks I know that use Facebook it's a means of keeping in touch with distant friends, or to maintain a bit of social connection in a life dominated by work and family obligations.
If you are that paranoid about keeping your job, find another job. Life is too short.
Besides, it's exactly the opposite approach to being a successful consultant. Any decent consultant provides their client with a "here's how you fire me" file with all of the information they need to access and maintain the system(s) you've built. The idea here is to do such a good job for your client that they want more, not less, of you. If you can't do this you have no business being a consultant (or general employee, for that matter).
FTFA: Apache said the use of one-time passwords was a "lifesaver" because it limited the damage and stopped the attack from spreading to other services/hosts.
Nice that the damage was contained. What would be the motivation(s) for hacking Apache, anyway? It's not like it's Citibank.
When setting up a system I always set up both a readwrite and readonly database user, granting only SELECT for the readonly user. Many web apps are "SELECT-only" that grab info out of a database and display it. By requiring these apps to use the readonly user adds another layer of protection should the web programmer code unsafely. Note that a hacker can still get info out of the database using injection, but can't put stuff in, or delete your data.
The poster states they have resources for making the customizations but not for maintaining them. Why not just use the same resources that made the customizations for the maintenance?
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TFA's statement "And neither configuration gives you access to calendars and contacts." is just wrong, or at least misleading. While it's true that you can't access calendar info through IMAP, there is an entire Google calendar API for event manipulation (I use in my Sig webapp).
(Replying to back out erroneous "Overrated" mod on your post.) As an over-50 software engineer I can attest I was able to find a position at my former salary within 3 weeks of a surprise layoff.
> If anything, one recent study suggests, the growth of immigrant workers in American companies helps younger American technical workers
Of course. Isn't that a basic law of economic theory? As the supply of labor increases so do salaries.
I have some doubts.
If you're serving up static pages you shouldn't need much in the way or resources. I've been hosting my heavily dynamic site (see sig) on Pair.com and have found them to be quite competent.
I don't know if this is any sort of indication about the popularity of Windows 8, but I got my daughter a new Acer laptop with Windows 8 for a graduation present. She asked my to put Ubuntu on instead. Interestingly, she prefers Mate to the default Unity desktop. Aside: boots in seconds because I put /boot and /usr on the SSD drive. Very nice.
I don't see technology as inhabiting much of the universe of effective teaching. A good teacher with deep subject understanding and good communication skills is always going to be better than a crappy teacher festooned with the latest IT.
I haven't been able to mount my new device running Jellybean because it uses MTP instead of the old Mass Storage, so this capability is welcomed.
A few nights ago my band was playing at one of the local Casino showrooms, and I noticed these new LOTR machines. I did a double take! Most of you probably do not frequent Casinos (nor would I, except for my gigs there), but they have all these movie-themed slot machines; Wizard Of Oz, Dirty Dancing, etc. But LOTR machines just seem really strange for some reason. Funny.... no Ocean's Eleven ones.
I use it daily for my work and the kid's machine runs it. I'll drop them some $$$ next time.
I'm almost 54. Going strong and doing what I love. My wife is 45 and also a software engineer. I had a project end about 9 months ago and had to find a position within 4 weeks. Lots of work, even for a guy my age (Southern California).
Well, as a counter example, I was sick of ads on my Droid "Free" metronome app, so I wrote an ad-free one, and yes, it was produced via "Good Will". And unlike the ad-festooned apps, mine comes with both Cowbell and Fart sounds!
That's what JNI is for. Write your performance-critical code in C.
Things falling on people kill people. From the photos in TFA it looks like the're using unreinforced masonry. This is deadly in earthquake zones, but this situation has more to do with local building codes and enforcement than seismic potential.
In the current state of earthquake prediction, the actual prediction of *when* an earthquake will occur is not all that reliable. However the prediction of how much ground acceleration can be expected from potential seismic activity is reliable and building codes can be created accordingly.
My reading of the article was that they didn't feel Oracle was resourcing the projects appropriately so they took the ball to start their own game, so to speak. I take it the products in TFA are competitors to Microsoft's Active Directory and Oracle's own SSO system (but more distributed since they seem to be incorporating OAuth).
Gee. I was going to buy a little single engine Cessna, but I guess I can spring for a 747 since you can pick one up for only $50,000.
OP Here. Good to know. But it seems like there's a downside to thousands of open sockets sitting around doing nothing but sending keep-alives.
I'm not convinced that "tricking" an HTTP connection into staying open really buys you all that much over polling your system every 5 or 10 seconds and seeing if any of your applications need updating. A previous poster mentioned using a regular socket, which seems the right way to go about it if you really do need a persistent connection. I've written applets that do this, and it's not a big deal.
According to TFA the study sample involved college students. What about other demographic groups? For most of the more "mature" folks I know that use Facebook it's a means of keeping in touch with distant friends, or to maintain a bit of social connection in a life dominated by work and family obligations.
If you are that paranoid about keeping your job, find another job. Life is too short.
Besides, it's exactly the opposite approach to being a successful consultant. Any decent consultant provides their client with a "here's how you fire me" file with all of the information they need to access and maintain the system(s) you've built. The idea here is to do such a good job for your client that they want more, not less, of you. If you can't do this you have no business being a consultant (or general employee, for that matter).
FTFA: Apache said the use of one-time passwords was a "lifesaver" because it limited the damage and stopped the attack from spreading to other services/hosts. Nice that the damage was contained. What would be the motivation(s) for hacking Apache, anyway? It's not like it's Citibank.
I don't like Eclipse, but I don't have to since there is an emacs mode for Android development.
When setting up a system I always set up both a readwrite and readonly database user, granting only SELECT for the readonly user. Many web apps are "SELECT-only" that grab info out of a database and display it. By requiring these apps to use the readonly user adds another layer of protection should the web programmer code unsafely. Note that a hacker can still get info out of the database using injection, but can't put stuff in, or delete your data.
Umm... I think we were doing this a long time ago in Lisp with CLOS (and flavors).
Or just:
print "@list";
Perl. It puts the "fun" in your functions!
The poster states they have resources for making the customizations but not for maintaining them. Why not just use the same resources that made the customizations for the maintenance?