Job Opening @Twitter - Application Security Engineer

"We are adding to our technical staff to help us improve Twitter's application security. This is an exciting role in which you will have a real impact on millions of lives. You'll interface with Twitter's amazing application engineers, operations teams, and product managers, to name a few. If you have a passion for securing high-profile systems, this is your dream job."

Application Security Engineer / Working at Twitter

We the jury...find the defendant, a GEEK

There are days where i put my headphones in to listen to music (usually techno) while i code, but many times...i quickly take them back out.

Myself and 2 of the other programmers here sit in close proximity and all of us are slightly crazy. One of us isn't just crazy, he's "We the jury, find the defendant..." type of crazy.
-Quoted from Christopher Titus

At random times throughout the day, one of us will burst out with something completely random, and usually objectionable. Today, i'm sitting here coding and i hear my coworker making "beatbox" sounds with his mouth, then i hear:

"pschhhh te chhhhh wcki wcki WrapPanel"

The Silverlight Toolkit has a control in it called "WrapPanel" which we all have decided is fun to use. All day, presumingly anytime he saw the control name in his code, he would would break out into a geeky "rap" of some sort...which kept us laughing most of the day :)

Silverlight Toolkit: WrapPanel: "I’d like for us to talk about one of the new controls in the Silverlight Toolkit – WrapPanel.
In the following article we’ll deep dive into WrapPanel and see how it behaves in different situations."

The Xaml Workshop: Same-Old Apple Business Philosophy: iCrap

I, Adam Cloud, approve of this message.

This article from Matt over @ XamlWorkshop helps to separate the developer from the platform in the common argument regarding Apple's alleged "Supremacy" by all of their ISheep.

Regardless of what side of the argument you stand on, this is worth a read for the mere fact that the hardwork of individual developers is being overlooked, and creativity being credited towards the Corporations that created the platform it was written for.

The Xaml Workshop: Same-Old Apple Business Philosophy: iCrap: "The other day, while watching television, I was treated to a newer Apple commercial promoting the iPad. There was one glaring annoyance that..."

The Chrome Experiment - HTML5 -The Wilderness Downtown

This demonstration of the capabilities of HTML5 was amazing. It did consume cpu as it processed and put together the demonstration, and used about half a GB of memory, but it is still powerful.

I can't wait till HTML5 is more widespread and we get to see all the creative uses of it!

*Note, this cannot by viewed in any browser but Google Chrome

The Wilderness Downtown

System.Data.OracleClient deprecated in .NET 4.0

In .NET Framework 4.0 Microsoft has deprecated OracleConnection and OracleCommand (and likely all other dependent children from the System.Data.OracleClient.

This just supports what me and my coworker have been telling our company's DBA all along.

T-SQL > PL/SQL

Unfortunately, a deprecation by m$ alone won't convince the higherups to stray away from the mess that is Oracle and migrate to a M$ Sql Server. Because the oracle client ships with Oracle.DataAccess.dll in the %Oracle Path%\product\10.2.0\client_1\BIN\ folder, it's likely we'll be stuck in Oracle land!

Oracle and ADO.NET Depreciated

Engineering Mountains...

of Dew.

Marvel at my ingenuity..

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