In tracking down a memory leak in one of our Rails apps today, I ran across an interesting post detailing the difference between anonymous and named blocks in Ruby, and the performance differences therein.
It’s definitely worth a look, especially if you’re running in a complex environment, where new closures will be large and unwieldy. It’s [...]
So there’s been this gossipy story making the rounds on the social news sites, that the McCain camp has unbelievably registered voteforthemilf.com and are redirecting it to their site! They’ve got traceroutes and everything! Oh! The sexism! Oh! The gall! Oh! The huge manatee!
Or, wait, no, maybe everyone running around screaming about this just doesn’t [...]
I have a friend who recently had several of his online accounts compromised. The attackers weren’t particularly clever, didn’t use any special tools, didn’t install any viruses on his computer. All they needed was to see his public Facebook profile. From that, they were able to divine his birthday and security question answer - [...]