These are my links for May 6th 2010:
- Where to Find The Best Travel Deals Online – Good collection of resources for discount travel
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Bookmarks for May 6th 2010
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010These are my links for April 20th 2010:
- Alternative Type Finder – Cool flowchart to choose just the right typeface for your project
- Jackson JSON Processor – Looks like a useful library for handling JSON from Java
Bookmarks for March 11th 2010
Friday, March 12th, 2010These are my links for March 11th 2010:
- Monitoring SOAP Messages Made Easy With JAX-WS RI 2.0.1 | Java.net – Documents a couple of system properties that make a HUGE difference to debugging SOAP apps
- How to Trust Any SSL Certificate From a Java Client App – REALLY useful stuff when you just need to get things working.
Bookmarks for November 15th 2009
Monday, November 16th, 2009These are my links for November 15th 2009:
- Skype Emoticons & Flags Cheatsheet – Nice – text for all the Skype emoticons, including the secret ones [ (mooning) - who knew? ] and flags
Bookmarks for November 6th 2009
Saturday, November 7th, 2009These are my links for November 6th 2009:
- Remus – Transparent High Availability for Xen – Remus provides transparent, comprehensive high availability to ordinary virtual machines running on the Xen virtual machine monitor. It does this by maintaining a completely up-to-date copy of a running VM on a backup server, which automatically activates if the primary server fails
- OpenSSL is written by monkeys – Marco Peereboom's rant on OpenSSL. To be honest, looking at the examples of OpenSSL code, it's difficult to disagree – sorry, Ben!
Bookmarks for October 22nd 2009
Friday, October 23rd, 2009These are my links for October 22nd 2009:
- 19 Ways to Build Physical Security into a Data Center – Quite old now (2005), but still very relevant. It doesn't matter how many layers of security you have in the cloud infrastructure software if you allow unauthorized access to the hardware!
- Cloud Cube Model: Selecting Cloud Formations for Secure Collaboration – From the Jericho Forum – a model for organizing cloud computing into four dimensions – so it really should be a hypercube
- Cloud Standards Wiki – Not sure who actually runs this, but it's a useful collection of links relating to cloud standards
- Daoli Project – Interesting – a project to leverage Trusted Computing in the Cloud – the hypervisor becomes part of the Trusted Computing Base (TCB).
Bookmarks for October 13th 2009
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009These are my links for October 13th 2009:
- OpenCrowd – Cloud Computing > Cloud Taxonomy, Landscape, Evolution – Useful cloud taxonomy diagram
- Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds – Mapping Amazon EC2's internals and instantiating co-resident machine instances with a view to mounting cross-VM side channel attacks.
- Cloud Security Alliance – Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing – Comprehensive overview of the cloud security landscape
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail – Note – you'll have to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail Settings
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Reader – Great time-savers for Google's feed reader
- Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map v1.0: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Mega-map (by Troy Angrignon) of everything cloud related
- OpenCrowd – Cloud Computing > Cloud Taxonomy, Landscape, Evolution – Useful cloud taxonomy diagram
- Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds – Mapping Amazon EC2's internals and instantiating co-resident machine instances with a view to mounting cross-VM side channel attacks.
- Cloud Security Alliance – Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing – Comprehensive overview of the cloud security landscape
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail – Note – you'll have to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail Settings
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Reader – Great time-savers for Google's feed reader
- Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map v1.0: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Mega-map (by Troy Angrignon) of everything cloud related
- Brewer’s CAP Theorem – Nice article on Brewer's CAP (Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance – pick any two) theorem and its implications for distributed systems. Interesting to see the parallels with eventual consistency in directory services. Bonus reference to the Sex Pistols' seminal 4th June 1976 Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gig in the intro!
Bookmarks for October 8th 2009
Friday, October 9th, 2009These are my links for October 8th 2009:
- The OpenSSO REST Interfaces in Black / White – DocTeger gives a comprehensive explanation of OpenSSO's REST-like identity services, with the usual cool music video at the end
- Directory "Engineering" – Ludo’s sketches – Nice – an OpenDS engineer has built a hardware dashboard for Sun's open source directory server
Bookmarks for October 1st 2009
Friday, October 2nd, 2009These are my links for October 1st 2009:
- Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? – Entertaining rant from Charlie Booker at The Guardian on the 'shitasmic' Windows 7 Launch Party video.
- brain aided dancing: a mix for the MIGHTY! designers republic – A one-hour-plus mix of tracks with one thing in common – cover artwork by the Designers Republic. I must have about half the tracks here – Chakk, Age of Chance, Krush, The Orb, Pulp and, of course, the fabulous Pop Will Eat Itself. Marvelous!
Bookmarks for September 29th 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009These are my links for September 29th 2009:
- Enabling Web Service Security With OpenSSO WSS Agent: Part 1 – Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic explain how to secure a JAX-WS web service with OpenSSO.
- Federating to Salesforce CRM in Under 5 Minutes – The Smoking Monkey – The ever-creative Smoking Monkey (aka Daniel Raskin) shows how to hook OpenSSO up to SalesForce in less than five minutes.
