Past Week's Favorites
from May 12, 2013 to May 19, 2013
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Rails' Insecure Defaults
Secure defaults are critical to building secure systems. If a developer must take explicit action to enforce secure behavior, eventually even an experienced developer will forget to do so. For this…
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Ruby Proxies for Scale and Monitoring
By Ilya Grigorik on April 20, 2009 Lift the curtain behind any modern web application and you will find at least a few proxy servers orchestrating the show. Caching proxies such as Varnish and Squid…
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Testing Tuesday #1: Tests make software
by Clemens Helm. Follow him on Twitter and Google+ This is the first blog post of our new Testing Tuesday series. Every Tuesday we will share our insights and opinions on the software testing space.…
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5 Steps To Kill Hidden Bad Bugs In Your Gut That Make You Sick
Doctors are trained to identify diseases by where they are located. If you have asthma, it's considered a lung problem; if you have rheumatoid arthritis, it must be a joint problem; if you have acne,…
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Inspirational speech video of the day: 'This is Water'
A portion of the commencement speech given by writer David Foster Wallace to the graduating class of Kenyon College in Ohio, in 2005, gets turned into a beautiful motivational video created by…
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How To Write Speedy Unit Tests in Django, Part 1: The Basics
In this series we’re discussing basic to advanced techniques for writing fast, efficient, and focused unit tests in the Django framework/content management system (CMS). Let's start with some…
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How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley
The nineteen-forties Bing Crosby hit “White Christmas” is a key part of the national emotional regression that occurs every Christmas. Between Christmases, Crosby is most often…
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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on Marc
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Strongbox and Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous inbox. His achievements were real and varied, but the events that would come to define him…
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Are You a Sheep or Sheepdog? Part I
Last December, 58-year-old Ki Suk Han was pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City. Even though 60-90 seconds passed before an oncoming train hit the man, a group of up to eighteen bystanders…
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