Programming

research!rsc: Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco

http://research.swtch.com/2008/05/lessons-from-debianopenssl-fiasco.html good explanation of debian openssl bug. worth reading if programming is what u do for a living

Re: [GIT pull] x86 fixes for 2.6.26 [LWN.net]

http://lwn.net/Articles/283376/ Linus on development workflow (worth reading)

protocols08cookies.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/protocols08cookies.pdf [yet another one] proposal for secure session cookies

'threads::shared' in apache-modperl - MARC

http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&w=2&r=1&s=threads%3A%3Ashared&q=b Links to some discussions and code samples, if you need to implement ‘use Threads’ in mod_perl apache (prefork MPM )

[Russian] Stored procedures i n C for PostgreSQL under Win32 (MinGW ) | Сишные хранимки под PostgreSQL 8.1 (Win) / PostgreSQL : Форум на SQL.RU

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=435875 in Russian: how to complie PostgreSQL stored procedures in C with MinGW under windows

Os Bunce » SlideShare DBD::Gofer -- DBD Connection pool proxy

http://www.slideshare.net/oscon2007/os-bunce Slides for DBD::Gofer presentation – scalable DBD connection-pool proxy from people @ danga/lj

List of talks http://event.perlrussia.ru YAPC::Russia “May Perl” Moscow, 17–18 May 2008

http://event.perlrussia.ru/yr2008/talks YAPC (yet another perl conference) in Moscow this year, list of talks

[Russian] PostgreSQL forum on SQL.RU: Boolean events and a query to define similarity // как лучше сделать запрос для определения похожести событий? / PostgreSQL : Форум на SQL.RU

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=549868 Say we have a table with a lot of boolean columns. One row in that table defines an “event” entity, so basically event 1 can look like 00001 and event 2 can look like 01001. Post discusses a ways to define similarities between events (XOR)

Matasano Chargen » This New Vulnerability: Dowd’s Inhuman Flash Exploit

http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/ detalied description about Flash vuln that was used to vin a recent hack contest (where vista and mac were hacked )

Gearman - system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work

http://www.danga.com/gearman/ something like MapReduce in Perl – from Brad!!