Tag Archives: Software

Strong Security for Everyone!

I received some press-release-spam this week that I actually didn’t mind. TrustBearer Labs, a home-town startup has released their new OpenID provider, TrustBearer OpenID. What makes this interesting is that it utilizes their browser-based authentication hardware support to instantly provide strong, token-based security to any OpenID enabled site (application?). Their browser software [...]

This is the best we can do?

Still working on my slides for SCALE, decided to further delay productivity by putting together a brief set of steps on how to use OpenOffice.org Impress to get really pissed off.

Start up OOo Impress and create a new presentation.
Open up the master slide view and create two new masters; make them somewhat visually distinct so [...]

Sun Rewrites Java Browser Plugin

I’m not sure that Java applets are even relevant to software development today, but this interview (via Ajaxian) regarding the rewritten Java browser plugin caught my attention:

Java Applets Reborn from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.
So the most interesting things (to me):

The plugin itself is mostly written in Java. I love these sort of recursive language [...]

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