Category Archives: Science

Chrome Developer Tools

Paul Irish shows off some of the fanci­ness that Google has added to Chrome for developers.

December 7, 2011 – 12:28 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks

Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suf­fer the same secu­rity holes.

December 6, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?

Pretty much exactly my answer when some­one asks about pirat­ing software.

November 25, 2011 – 11:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | Comments Off

The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey

Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and peo­ple who read it) a lit­tle bit about your­self and every­one else who makes websites.

November 16, 2011 – 12:54 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer

I posted about this on Twit­ter, but it’s still a lit­tle astonding.

November 16, 2011 – 12:45 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1

Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempt­ing mea­sur­ing the speed of the TCP pack­est with JavaScript.

November 14, 2011 – 11:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes

The only two that came out unscathed, Google and ReCaptcha.

November 14, 2011 – 10:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off