LibreSSL fork of OpenSSL
A small team of well-known developers from the OpenBSD team is working on a fork of OpenSSL, to be named LibreSSL. This group is going through the OpenSSL source code …
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Heartbleed and InterMapper
I created an InterMapper probe that detects whether a web server is vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. You can read about it on my Blueberry Hill Software blog at: http://blueberryhillsoftware.com/heartbleed-probe-for-intermapper/
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My MacBook Pro (10.9.2) was running slowly. I saw frequent spinning beach balls, systemstats was consuming 100% of the CPU on a regular basis, Apple Mail was grinding away indexing …
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I’ve been looking for a way to sort out Angular, Backbone, Bower, Grunt, Node, NPM, Yeoman and all the other buzzwords that get thrown around for writing a Single Page App …
Learning about Single Page Apps Read MoreAnd the H@ckfest results…
What a great weekend! What interesting ideas came from the H@ckfest! My team, the inforMED project, presented an idea for helping first responders (EMTs, ED triage) to get relevant data …
And the H@ckfest results… Read MoreHeading to the MIT Healthcare Grand H@ckfest!
I was accepted to the Joslin Diabetes team at the MIT Healthcare Grand H@ckfest this weekend at MIT Media Lab. It’s an all-weekend opportunity to work with a team on …
Heading to the MIT Healthcare Grand H@ckfest! Read MorePython libraries: requests and multithreading.dummy
Today was a two-fer: I found two interesting techniques for working with Python. I needed to test a web server, and wanted to send concurrent HTTP get requests. (The problem …
Python libraries: requests and multithreading.dummy Read MoreWinning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge
I was a member of the team that won the “Most Likely to Succeed” award at the MedStart Hackathon at Tufts Medical School (http://tuftsmedstart.com/) Our four-member team (Bryan Bordeaux, Michelle …
Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge Read MoreDigital Analytics Fundamentals from Google
I just finished Google’s “Digital Analytics Fundamentals” course at https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/course. I did OK, too 🙂 The course talks about using Google Analytics to show the performance of your website. The course …
Digital Analytics Fundamentals from Google Read MoreUpgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – Really long install times
Mac OS X 10.9 came out on Tuesday, and I decided to take the plunge and move my 2.3 GHz MacBook Pro to Mavericks. The price (free) is right and …
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