Time for some Soup

Creating a rogue CA certificate

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:01:18 GMT

We have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. As a proof of concept we executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows us to impersonate any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol.

http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/

Lately, I've been tinkering a bit with Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3, JPA, HSQLDB, Maven 2 and related technologies.

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:39:20 GMT

Lately, I've been tinkering a bit with Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3, JPA, HSQLDB, Maven 2 and related technologies.

As usual, a simple, little blog (back-end) app serves me as a playground for that. :-)

However, I've decided to make its Subversion repo (sort of) publicly available 'cause I guess it might be interesting for others as well:

svn co https://svn.robert42.com/blog-backend/trunk blog-backend

HTTP auth user/PW: public

Update: added the unit tests once more, this time written in and compiled with Groovy via GMaven.

Dave Thomas' RubyConf 2008 Keynote ★★★★

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:41:29 GMT

No matter if one loves or hates (or something in between) Ruby, I think this is really an interesting talk for various reasons...

BTW, the proposed, so-called Cluby (~ Closure-based Ruby) looks quite a bit to me like an attempt to make Ruby "groovier" (as does oTuby ~ Optionally-typed Ruby in some way, too). ;-)

(via)

Rating: 4/5

ist (spät aber doch) voll auf Dexter reingekippt.

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:33:58 GMT

ist (spät aber doch) voll auf Dexter reingekippt.

"In the end, programming shows us how small we are."

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:55:00 GMT

"In the end, programming shows us how small we are."

–Stevey's Blog Rants: A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

"However, I've decided that in the future my posts will be more rambling, and ..."

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:14:22 GMT

"However, I've decided that in the future my posts will be more rambling, and more pointless. I think part of what I don't like about the older posts is that they are sometimes arguing a point or something, but my real point (or my intention, at least) is just to share some kind of idea or thought, not convince anyone of anything. Also, I think this will be a lot easier to write because I can just type a bunch of words and they don't have to fit together in any particular way, and it's also a good excuse to not bother with any editing, so I should be able to crank these things out really fast.

I also have this idea to outsource the writing of my blog posts to someone, ideally everyone. The idea is that I'd write a bunch of stuff and then someone else (maybe wiki-style) would turn it into something coherent and readable. That would save me a lot of time and also provide plausible deniable when I write something that turns out to be especially stupid or offensive. But that's in the future. For now, it will just be a bunch of words that keep going until I get bored or distracted, and then I'll hit "send" :) (I'm also writing these things in Gmail since the blogger interface upsets me)"

–Paul Buchheit: blog, v2

Party

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:06:08 GMT

Party
I wonder what 2008 meme will go bizarrely mainstream in 2009 like Rickrolling did 2007-2008. I Accidentally ? Yo dawg? Place your bets now!

[Reposted from xkcd]

geht ab jetzt für ca. zwei Tage nicht mehr außer Haus - Silvester-Koch-und-Sc...

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:21:29 GMT

geht ab jetzt für ca. zwei Tage nicht mehr außer Haus - Silvester-Koch-und-Schlemm-Session + gemütliche Zweisamkeit beginnt. :-)

ist zurück in L:Wien

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:50:06 GMT

ist zurück in L:Wien

Auf geht's nach Ferrara in Italien, juhuu!

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:17:23 GMT

Auf geht's nach Ferrara in Italien, juhuu!

Wenn man schon mal dabei ist...

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:11:40 GMT

Wenn man schon mal dabei ist...

"Wir sehen unmöglich aus
wir sind der Zeit voraus
wir sind die wunde Stelle
mitten unter euch
wir sind ein Schattenriss
aus Knochen, Fleisch und Blut
wir stehen auf der Schwelle
einer neuen Zeit" -- Kante - Zombi, 2004

Ioke

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:09:33 GMT

[...] is a dynamic language targeted at the Java Virtual Machine. It's been designed from scratch to be a highly flexible general purpose language. It is a prototype-based programming language that is inspired by Io, Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby.

http://ioke.org/

genießt das einzig wahre Bier: Augustiner Lagerbier Hell a.k.a. "Gustl". de.w...

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:29:04 GMT

genießt das einzig wahre Bier: Augustiner Lagerbier Hell a.k.a. "Gustl". de.wikipedia.org/... ;-)

IMHO, einer der schönsten Songs ever und folglich ein absoluter All-Time-Favo...

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:13:49 GMT

IMHO, einer der schönsten Songs ever und folglich ein absoluter All-Time-Favourite von mir.

e * 42 farshimmelt blintz

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:22:50 GMT

(via)

http://www.google.com/search?q=e+*+42+farshimmelt+blintz

hat heut' schon orig. bay. Weißwürscht' mit Brezn & Hausmachersenf genossen -...

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:23:56 GMT

hat heut' schon orig. bay. Weißwürscht' mit Brezn & Hausmachersenf genossen - am Abend kommt der Schweinsbraten mit Semmelnknödeln dran. :-)

"I am proud to say that Grails integrates nicely with Maven now :-)"

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:11:17 GMT

"I am proud to say that Grails integrates nicely with Maven now :-)"

–Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails & Maven Kiss and Make-up with Grails 1.1 Beta 2

liebt es (zumindest derzeit) mit IntelliJ IDEA, JDK 5, Spring, Hibernate, Mav...

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:28:16 GMT

liebt es (zumindest derzeit) mit IntelliJ IDEA, JDK 5, Spring, Hibernate, Maven usw. zu entwickeln.

Die Tüpen von AKQA nehmen sich um

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:06:36 GMT

Die Tüpen von AKQA nehmen sich um die 40 Mikrowellen, schliessen die Dinger an eine, mit mindestens 32 Ampere abgesicherte Sicherung am Starkstrom an und programmieren die zeitlich dann so, dass die bei dem Kling, der beim Ausgehen einer Mikrowelle erklingt, Jingle Bells spielen. Im Dunkeln!

- kfmw.blog

[Reposted from murdelta via c3o]

Nice JS FX

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:50:31 GMT

(via)

http://www.rolyn.co.uk/wub.htm

"At the risk of sounding self-contradictory, I also think that when the studen..."

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:03:57 GMT

"At the risk of sounding self-contradictory, I also think that when the student owns the task of learning, they will learn enormously better than when the task is imposed."

–Students learn what they need, not what is assigned -- Ted Dunning (via langreiter.com)

michi bloggt!: Master Theses

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:03:48 GMT

http://michi.knallgrau.at/blog/stories/5399632/

Apache Sling

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:35:20 GMT

[...] (currently in incubation) is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content. Sling applications use either scripts or Java servlets, selected based on simple name conventions, to process HTTP requests in a RESTful way.

http://incubator.apache.org/sling/site/

Mist, die Tabtaste von meiner Tastatur ( matias.ca/... ) spinnt/klemmt mittle...

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:03:42 GMT

Mist, die Tabtaste von meiner Tastatur ( matias.ca/... ) spinnt/klemmt mittlerweile. #zuvielprogrammieren?

taugt's endlich mal wieder mehr Java programmieren zu "müssen". #studium

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:33:41 GMT

taugt's endlich mal wieder mehr Java programmieren zu "müssen". #studium

"The interesting thing is that we were right about needing to finish the langu..."

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:41:46 GMT

"The interesting thing is that we were right about needing to finish the language even though it had missing features. It was a timing issue, there was only about a three month window in which the whole Java phenomenon could have happened. We barely made it. It is also interesting that Bill [Joy] was absolutely right about what Java needs long term. When I go look at the list of things he wanted to add back then, I want them all. He was right, he usually is."

–The Long Strange Trip to Java -- Patrick Naughton, 1996

"There's a natural law in programming language and API design: as backwards co..."

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:07:45 GMT

"There's a natural law in programming language and API design: as backwards compatibility increases, elegance decreases. Backwards compatibility is very important. There's a cost to breaking code, but there's also a cost to not breaking it—complexity in the developer's face."

–Seeking the Joy in Java (via hannesw)

(Image)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:20:20 GMT

TMQL Overview

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:20:39 GMT

[...] the query language to query Topic Map oriented information, slowly inches towards standardization. This document provides an overview over the language features of the current draft.

http://kill.devc.at/system/files/overview.html

decided to check out Weka a bit tonight. www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/... #datamining...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:06:56 GMT

decided to check out Weka a bit tonight. www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/... #datamining #machinelearning #studies

Finally found my MATLAB copy inside GEB book. Sometimes my ordered chaos' sti...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:02:56 GMT

Finally found my MATLAB copy inside GEB book. Sometimes my ordered chaos' still merely plain chaos // FIXME: needs further refactoring. :-)

Flow Charts

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:39:26 GMT

Flow Charts
At 8 drinks, you switch the torrent from FreeBSD to Microsoft Bob. C'mon, it'll be fun!

[Reposted from xkcd]

"Will we all be programming in a dynamically typed language in 2010?"

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:16:49 GMT

"Will we all be programming in a dynamically typed language in 2010?"

–Robert C. Martin, 2003

(Image)

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:07:56 GMT

"Groovy's optional typing is one of its strong points. It's not perfect, but i..."

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:52:44 GMT

"Groovy's optional typing is one of its strong points. It's not perfect, but it makes a big difference to code maintainability."

–Graeme Rocher in reply to Stephan Schmidt

Rails Worst Practices: 13 Coding Nightmares You Should Avoid

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:47:19 GMT

"This is not a post about best practices. This is about the worst of the worst, the things you should never, ever do, the stuff of coding nightmares." (via Code Monkeyism)

http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/12/rails-worst-practices-13-coding-nightmares-you-should-avoid/#more-1314

"Aber eben, einfach ist das nur bedingt."

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:28:39 GMT

"Aber eben, einfach ist das nur bedingt."

–Anonyme Köche » Nicht ganz unschwer: Simplifikation

"Intelligence is not about knowing lots of things, it's about being able to le..."

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:52:30 GMT

"Intelligence is not about knowing lots of things, it's about being able to learn lots of things."

–Overcoming Bias: What I Think, If Not Why (paraphrased)

[Reposted from c3o]

Unfactoring From Patterns

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:17:31 GMT

ROFL (via bookworm8at)

http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/unfactoring-from-patterns.html

"Some Things Are Better Done than Described."

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:05:14 GMT

"Some Things Are Better Done than Described."

–The Pragmatic Programmer