This specification defines a JavaScript interface that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments. » Jatinder Mann | w3.org

Django, framework de desarrollo web basado en Python ha actualizado las ramas 1.3 y 1.4 para dar solución a una vulnerabilidad que podría, mediante técnicas de envenenamiento de cabeceras (”Header poisoning”), redireccionar a un usuario a un sitio malicioso o incluso el robo de credenciales. Para realizar algunas operaciones, Django extrae el nombre del dominio de la cabecera ”Host” enviada. La vulnerabilidad (CVE-2012-4520) reside en el parser del método django.http.HttpRequest.get_host(), que extrae esta cabecera ”Host” incorrectamente. ...

When I started my on-call shifts, we had pretty little in the way of automation for day-to-day issues. Tasks like SSH’ing into our cluster, starting a Rails console, or doing a deep search through our gigantic mail directories, were either shelved away in someone’s bashrc, history log, or just ingrained into someone’s memory. This pain was also felt by a few other of my fellow programmers, and we started cobbling together a Git repo simply named ”37s shell scripts”. ...

Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude”not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data. By providing new ways for mobile devices to solve for missing data, the technology not only eliminates this wasteful process but also can seamlessly weave data streams from Wi-Fi and LTE”a leap forward from other approaches that toggle back and forth. ”Any IP network will benefit from this technology,” says Sheau Ng, vice president for research and development at NBC Universal. ...

Linux kernel developer Theodore ”Ted” Ts’o has released a series of patches for what he has called ”a Lance Armstrong bug” in the kernel, meaning behaviour that does not trip up tests but nevertheless makes the kernel work differently than intended. A user had reported a problem that caused data loss; the kernel developers quickly narrowed this down to a fault in the ext4 implementation that was introduced with the release of Linux 3.6.2 just over a week ago. Apparently, the data corruption bug was hard to track down as it only manifests itself if a system is rebooted twice in a relatively short period of time. ...

Cuando observamos el mundo físico que nos rodea, nos maravillamos de su extrema variedad y complejidad. Al examinar el mundo vivo no deja de sorprendernos la riqueza de animales y plantas que encontramos por doquier. Sería iluso pretender leer los libros que se han escrito en la historia. La música ofrece una enorme repertorio de temas que escuchar. Y el mundo digital sorprende por la desbordante cantidad de contenidos que nos presenta. Pero todos estos complejos mundos tienen algo en común: están compuestos por una pequeña cantidadde elementos combinados en gigantescos números. ...

This graphic chronicles the history of feature films from the origins in the 1910s until the present day. More than 2000 of the most important feature-length films are mapped into 20 genres spanning 100 years. Films selected to be included have: won important awards such as the best picture Academy Award; achieved critical acclaim according to recognized film critics; are considered to be key genre films by experts; and/or attained box office success. ...

Supongo que todos estáis al tanto de la hazaña de Felix Baumgartner, el hombre que ha saltado desde una altura de más de 120000 pies desde un globo, convirtiéndose en el hombre que más alto ha saltado y el que ha alcanzado la mayor velocidad sin ayuda mecánica como parte de la misión Red Bull Stratos. En Pybonacci somos tan frikis, que vamos a visualizar el salto supersónico de Baumgartner como mejor se nos da: con Python ;) ...

CSS was meant to style academic documents and simple sites (eg. wiki, blogs) where the cascade and descendant selectors makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately many sites we build nowadays are way more complex than that, and what used to work on simple projects doesn’t scale very well. We need to find smarter ways to code CSS to avoid the common issues and re-think the way we do our work. We should learn from the experience of other devs working in different domains, and apply into our own domain. Things like separation of concerns, modularity, encapsulation, DRY can (and should) be applied to large scale CSS projects as well. The main problem is that most people who are good at CSS doesn’t necessarily have a Computer Science background, most of them started as designers and learned CSS by themselves (that was my case¦). That’s the main reason why I’m writing this post. ...

Apple tomó muchas decisiones técnicas con el objetivo de mejorar la ”experiencia de usuario”, pero por sí mismas serían inútiles -o más perjudiciales- si no van acompañadas de medidas de control estrictas. Es fundamental el papel de los controles de las aplicaciones en el App Store (¡ojo! no los justifico). Independientemente de otras consideraciones políticas, dado su simplicidad y soluciones ad hoc, el iOS sería muy fácil de ”abusar” por los desarrolladores y aplicaciones. ...