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        Developers: Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference 2008-07-20 13:26

      Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 20, @01:26PM
      from the shining-a-spotlight dept.
      An anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot, has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware. The full research paper (PDF) is also available."
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      Submitted by rsk on Saturday July 19, @04:54PM
      rsk writes "Beta 5 (0.5.0) of the kallasoft SmugMug Java API has been released. In addition to a slew of optimization this Java API for the SmugMug image hosting service also provides additional enhancements for implementers wanting to extend the API. The API is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License and provides folks working in Java a much easier way to integrate and work with the SmugMug service (from either client or server apps)."
      http://www.kallasoft.com/smugmug-java-api-beta-5-released/
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        Developers: Reusing and Recycling Code 2008-07-19 11:18

      Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 19, @11:18AM
      from the save-the-electrons dept.
      An anonymous reader sends us to a writeup about when and how to recycle code, excerpting: "As developers, once we start separating our code into abstract ontological typologies, we make use of the human mind's phenomenal ability to work with types. Our code becomes less about jump tables and registers and more about users, email messages and images. What once was a problem of allocating resources and operations within the computer becomes an abstract, logical problem within a collection of objects....Over time, by constantly working to reuse our own code, we choose practices that work well for ourselves and discard practices that don't work as well or slow down our workflow. For developers flying solo or those working on small projects, this evolutionary process is a sufficient way of going about things. But there's trouble when we add other players into the mix--other developers, a user interface person, a database person, a sysadmin, a project mana-jerk: as a developer, they don't have access to our 'experience' of the code and we don't have access to theirs. "
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       [+] story, developers, programming, recycling, slashdotted, wot, pinto
      Submitted by LBR9 on Thursday July 17, @02:41PM
      LBR9 writes "Edsger Dijkstra's 1972 Turing Award lecture, The Humble Programmer, is now available online. Jocelyn Paine points out some of his favorite bits from this classic talk, then riffs on buzzword bloat and language bloat."
      http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Catching-Minnows-in-a-Jar-with-PL-I.html&Itemid=29
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        Developers: MySQL Readies Release Candidate For 5.1 2008-07-16 20:21

      Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 16, @08:21PM
      from the check-it-out dept.
      Anonymous Dolphin writes "MySQL has released plans for a final RC for the MySQL 5.1 server. Monty Widenius, the CTO and founder of MySQL, has put up a request for more feedback from the community. You can get the latest RC here. Please help with the testing of 5.1 and report your bugs here."
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       [+] story, developers, database, mysql, sun, rockedthemall

        Win32 API statistics[->] 2008-07-13 22:12

      Submitted by on Sunday July 13, @10:12PM
      An anonymous reader writes "Some guy was wondering what Windows API calls were the most(least) used. He wrote a Python script to get the function calls from the dlls on his machine, it made for one nice list. Here is a link to the top 2000 API functions. There are also usage statistics for the functions in advapi32.dll, gdi32.dll, kernel32.dll, msvcrt.dll, ole32.dll, oleaut32.dll, shell32.dll and user32.dll."
      http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/109-Some-Win32-API-usage-statistics.html
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