Do you know the famous MovieOS? If not, follow the link.
If so, and you’ve seen “Minority Report“, you probably guessed that the fancy manipulations Tom Cruise was doing at the start of the movie was “Movie OS 2.0”.
It’s not. It’s real. You can buy that and have it installed. Visit g-speak.
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During the installation, Dropbox saves the login credentials in %APPDATA%\Dropbox\config.db
The problem: The file can be copied to another computer or account and this simple operation gives an attacker the same credentials as the victim.
Even worse: Changing the password doesn’t help since the credentials don’t depend on the password. So even after a password change, the attacker can still access the Dropbox account!
Kudos go to Derek Newton for finding this gaping hole.
Original article: Dropbox authentication: insecure by design
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Here is a good collection of design patterns for JavaScript: Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
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If your Eclipse installation hangs, there can be several reasons. If it happens while your tests run, chances are that a test printed an exception to the console view. If the exception is very wide, this can cause Eclipse to hang for a few seconds: Bug 175888 – ConsolePatternMatcher causes large delays with some large input.
I’m working on a fix.
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If you’re on Windows 7, you may know this odd behavior: For some reason, Eclipse goes into a build frenzy. Every few seconds, it will rebuild the workspace.
The reason: You added your workspace to a Windows 7 Library and you have “Refresh Automatically” enabled.
My guess is that indexing of Windows 7 Libraries creates temporary files which make Eclipse believe something changed in the Workspace. Which causes a rebuild. Which makes Windows re-index the workspace.
Workaround: Remove your workspace from the library or disable “Refresh Automatically”.
See also: Bug 342931 – Windows 7 Libraries trigger rebuilds
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A lot of languages compete for the king’s seat taken by Java. Most of them solve a lot of problem with Java but none of them really takes the win. As I say: “Why is there more than one database? Because they all suck.”
Now Ceylon enters the stage (slides from the presentation). The main goal is to clean up the SDK while keeping an eye on what was good and what was bad with Java.
I’ve had my share with programming languages. On a scale between 1 and 10 (best), Python gets 9 from me. Java gets 6. Scala gets 5.
So how does Ceylon fare? At first glance, I’d give it a 7.
Pros:
Cons:
Things that leave me puzzled:
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I’ve added a new feature to my Maven tools for Eclipse: Applying patches to POMs.
This is a first step towards solving issues like this one: Bug 342046 – Invalid third party dependencies in Mavenized BIRT plugins
I’m not 100% happy with the result, though. Currently, the patch overwrites the original code. I think it would be much better if it created a profile instead. This way, you could see the original code and it would be simple to switch between different solutions for a problem in a POM.
The two standard problems are:
The latter is introduced by the fact that Eclipse projects need to pull dependencies via Project Orbit. Orbit often renames dependencies so there is a naming conflict if you pull your dependencies from Maven Central. So we need a way to say “I’m using Orbit” and “I want Maven Central”.
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Sound on Linux was pretty stable but then came PulseAudio sigh. One of the major problems is that some programs don’t try to look for the PulseAudio server. Instead, they try to lock the sound devices under /dev. Flash is one of them.
But there is a solution: Create a file “$HOME/.asoundrc” with this content:
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
That redirects all clients which use ALSA to the PulseAudio server and everyone is happy.
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Update: The project has its own web site, now.
Two days ago, I told you about Project Dash and my new tools for it. Well, we did run them over the weekend and import a lot of stuff from Eclipse 3.6.2 into a brand new testing Maven 2 repository.
So if you want to use Eclipse bundles in Maven 2 for your own projects (SWT, EMF, even BIRT), have a look and let me know:
Making the world a better place, one line of code at a time! 🙂
The tools are here.
New project home page: Maven Tools 4 Eclipse
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There is another HTML generator: renderSnake. Here is how it looks:
public class Logo implements Renderable {
public void renderOn(HtmlCanvas html) throws IOException { //@formatter:off
html
.div(id("logo"))
.div(id("logo_text"))
.h1()
.a(href("index.html"))
.write("render")
.style().write(".snake { color:yellow; }")._style()
.span(class_("snake")).write("S")._span()
.write("nake")
._a()
._h1()
.h2().write("lean and mean HTML page writing machine")._h2()._div()
._div();
}
}
I’m not sure about the “_” versions but it sure looks better than JSP 🙂
Related articles: Simple HTML Output From Java Using renderSnake
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