Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with easily cloneable root certificates | Ars Technica UK http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/11/dell-does-superfish-ships-pcs-with-self-signed-root-certificates/
Say goodbye to Scrum and take a look at the new open development method
As part of an open development method, code quality is king. You should be asking key questions every time you write code:
- Is this code legible?
- Is this code testable?
- Is this code modular?
- Is this code economical?
Every question asked benefits not only you, but your team. When you write code in a such a way that another developer half a world away can sit down and start working on it immediately, without needing to ask any questions, you’re helping improve your team’s efficiency. Likewise, when you ensure your code is testable, you drastically cut down on the number of roadblocks your team may encounter. With modularity, you present code to your team that is both easily maintained and potentially recyclable for another project. And finally, economical code can save everyone—from your team and future contributors, to clients and end-users—both time and money.
Source: Scrum is dead: breaking down the new open development method :: Opensource.com
Beyond code quality, other tents of the open development method include documentation, testing, discussions, transparency, asynchronicity, and democracy. This short article helps remind us that there isn’t a one size fits all model of development out there and we need to be mindful of the context that we work in.
Harvard Law School Library :: Free the Law – Overview
Harvard Law School Library :: Free the Law – Overview http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/free-the-law-overview/
IBM is reportedly going to buy Weather Company’s digital assets
International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is nearing an agreement to buy the Weather Company’s digital assets in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Source: IBM nears deal to buy Weather Company’s digital assets: source :: Reuters
The Weather Company’s digital assets include weather.com, the Weather Underground, and a bunch of platform apps. The weather.com website is generally considered one of the largest Drupal powered sites in the world.
This seems lit a bit of an odd move for IBM since it looks like a content play. Big Blue is more likely after the data that drives the digital properties and the talent pool it brings.
The startup framework to validate your idea before you spend $1 — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium
The startup framework to validate your idea before you spend $1 — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium https://medium.com/swlh/the-startup-framework-to-validate-your-idea-before-you-spend-1-5c475a3bbd6f#.ty86cja1n
15 Lessons from the Berkman Fellows Program
15 Lessons from the Berkman Fellows Program http://berkmanlessons.net/
Congressional Tools Wishlist – hackpad.com https://hackpad.com/Congressional-Tools-Wishlist-9lfuY1weiSV
Notes from #DCATL Day 1, part 1
Day 1 of DrupalCamp Altanta was a short day, just Friday afternoon, but there were plenty of excellent sessions on the agenda. I actually took a fair number of notes and picked up several ideas for making the Drupal sites I run, run better.
I started the afternoon with Building a Better Resource: Improving a Drupal Scholarly Journal Platform. This was a solid presentation by Dan Hansen and Jesse Karlsberg that covered a range of topics from migrating a legacy Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 to capturing a scholarly journal workflow with the Maestro module. Of particular interest is some of the custom module work being done for the Southern Spaces site. These include a text section module that allows content creators to add section level navigation points into lengthy journal articles and juicebox inline that adds a WP-style shortcode for creating Juicebox Galleries easily. Finally work is being done to create a distribution for scholarly journals that would be useful for law reviews. Finally it’s worth noting that author’s submit articles to the journal via word processor files, not through the WYSIWYG editor.
Next up was Growth Hacking with Content, Marketing Automation & Drupal presented by Shellie Hutchens, the Director of Marketing at Mediacurrent. The focus here was on marketing automation and integrating Drupal sites with marketing platforms. The idea is to shape visitor experience on your site to engage the viewer and slowly gather information that can be used for highly targeted marketing whether it be sales, brand visibility, or higher levels of engagement. Mediacurrent supports the development of a number of marketing automation modules that tie Drupal to many popular marketing platforms.
to be continued…
18F launches cloud.gov PaaS
We’ve developed cloud.gov, a Platform-as-a-Service (Paas), to tackle core infrastructure issues and enable our small development teams to improve the delivery of 18F products.
A Bitcoin primer for budding Ethereum developers
This series of articles will describe just enough of Bitcoin for budding Ethereum developers to better understand how Ethereum works under the hood, then begin to explore some routes by which new Ethereum devs can begin developing contract-orientation just like they developed their sense of object-orientation back in the day.
Source: Time sure does fly! — Medium
This article, first in a series, provides an overview of Bitcoin designed to help new Ethereum developers get their bearings in the fun filled world of cryptocurrency and blockchain.