A little known Russian security firm has taken the bold step of releasing details of zero-day exploits in business software every day for the rest of January, according to reports. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/164630,russian-security-firm-rails-against-responsible-disclosure.aspx
Systems suffer new year hangover
Software systems across the world went haywire on 1 January because they were not programmed to handle the year 2010. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/164632,systems-suffer-new-year-hangover.aspx#poll
What Windows 7 means to developers
Wondering what Windows 7 will break in your applications? Justin James assures you that there’s not much need to worry. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=1819&tag=nl.e055
The Jakob Nielsen Alertbox for September 14 is now online
Simple user testing with 5 participants, paper prototyping, and heuristic evaluation offer a cheap, fast, and early focus on usability, as well as many rounds of iterative design.http://www.useit.com/alertbox/discount-usability.html
Disabling automatic drive letter assignment
For certain situations, it may be necessary to tell Windows not to automatically mount new storage that become visible to the server. http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/windows/0,39044904,62057146,00.htm
Managing servers and other systems from the iPhone
Server administration can be a 24/7 job, but who wants to be tethered to a laptop all the time? http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/storage/0,39045058,62057245,00.htm
Researchers find large-scale XML library flaws
Researchers in Finland have found a series of flaws in the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) libraries that could pose a serious security risk. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/152232,researchers-find-large-scale-xml-library-flaws.aspx
How Little Do Users Read?
On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. more
Embarcadero buys CodeGear – Borland left to focus on ALM
CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies. more
Google: Unicode vanquishes ASCII
Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web. Also vanquished at almost exactly the same time was the Western European encoding. more