Yearly Archives: 2010

On Twitter

By laurentb | Published: 2010-03-16

Joel Spolsky on Twitter: Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into [...]

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Random fail

By laurentb | Published: 2010-02-28

Yet another case of trying to be too clever with randomness!

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Security is not easy

By laurentb | Published: 2010-02-07

Update: After a year, both plugins are finally updated with a better random key generator. Security is not easy. Programmers should leave things like random number and identifier generation to a library (or at least research the best way to do it). A lot of projects learned it the hard way. Let’s talk for instance [...]

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