Category: development
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Typosquatting Package Managers
Fascinating attack on unmoderated package managers for programming libraries (via former TimeDoctor contributor, Vogon) that would work just as well on unmoderated app stores: In the second part of 2015 and the early months of 2016, I worked on my bachelors thesis. In this thesis, I tried to attack programming language package managers such as Pythons PyPi,…
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We’re All Doomed: Part LXVII
Chris DiBona announces the shutdown of Google Code: When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety…
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ABC Linuxu interview w/icculus
Lots of interesting stuff including Ryan discussing OS/2 at length. This portion is especially compelling: I find if you’re targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Not to long ago, people would say, “why bother? Everyone runs Windows!”…
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How the App Store was won
[Various points of data showing how iPhone OS app, iTeleport generates a ton of revenue despite being priced at $25 snipped…] We also hope this demonstrates that you can build a business on the App Store. That doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that you’ll automatically make more money if you raise your price, or that…
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What the heck is cloud computing?
There is a lot of talk these days about “cloud computing”. Not many people know what cloud computing is, there has been much confusion around the topic. Cloud computing is what has been hailed as the next step: Automatic or transparent, dynamic provisioning, as needed by one’s application.