http://blog.cyberclip.com Musings on technology and more... Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:07:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I attended RailsConf in Chicago about 10 days ago. It was a great way to find out what was happening in arguably the most vibrant part of the web development community. I met a lot of people over those three days and would always ask them: "So, are you doing ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/23 About three years ago I wrote a vulnerability scanner for the Palm OS named AUSTIN. It was just a fun side project and after presenting it at Defcon 11, I forgot all about it. But recently a few people started asking me for the code. Turns out that the Defcon 11 ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/22 We've been Skype and SkypeOut users for a while. For the most part it works great. And BTW, if you're disappointed in the sound quality, get a headset. It'll work wonders. But this wasn't enough, what I really wanted was to make and receive Skype calls from our cordless phones. The ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/20 Sometimes you wonder why a company would make its users jump through hoops just to access its own site... AT&T bought SBC recently and they emailed me stating that I had to change my username because it didn't meet their "new guidelines" Hello? How about changing your guidelines instead of making thousands ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/18 I've been watching videos on my Treo for a couple years now but since recently upgrading to a Treo 650 (which has a nice fast processor and a gorgeous 320x320 screen) I've found it even more compelling to do so. Another factor is the increasing prevalence of video on the ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/17 Thomas is a Tiger. That is, he's in his first year of Cub Scouts and he and his friends are known as Tigers (go Pack 464!). This gets Thomas and I doing lots of interesting things: going on outtings, building cars, and... spending the night on an aircraft carrier! The USS ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/16 When flying, you usually expect to pay more for greater distance. Flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles is a lot cheaper than to Tokyo. However, it seems that there's a point at which you pay more the closer you get... I was on United's site and, just for the hell ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/15 I needed an http proxy for another project (more on that later) and thought it would be fun to write one in ruby. How simple can it be? With a few compromises, it can be very short indeed: # tinyproxy.rb # just for the fun of it require 'socket' require 'http-access2' def process_request(conn) verb, ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/14 In Our Time is an excellent weekly radio program from the BBC. The really cool aspect is that the beeb is making it available as a podcast (here's the RSS feed). The host invites well known scientists, philosophers, historians, etc. to debate and discuss a central question or theme. Recently we've ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/13 Many thanks to Ryan Tomayko for fixing the MS SQL adapter bug I posted a little while back. Things aren't all roses, as Ryan states: Quick Note: the SQL parsing regexp stuff in this adapter is bound to fail in many edge cases. This patch improves the accuracy of the regexen in ... http://blog.cyberclip.com/archives/4