The Insider News

William Edwards, Coder[^]:

Top 5 lists are super-good link bait, so I’ll make my own sad one. In no particular order, and not stopping at 5, here are a few of the ways MySQL makes my life miserable.

Hugh E. Williams[^]:

In general, passwords are rarely leaked, because they usually aren’t stored. What is usually leaked are the password hashes. Here's how passwords really work.

Wolfram Blog[^]:

Wouldn’t it be cool if you never had to remember another password again? A computer could authenticate you based on how you type your user name without ever requiring you to type a password. To continue our series of posts about personal analytics, I want to show you how you can do a detailed analysis of your own typing style just by using Mathematica!

Titan[^]:

Titan is an open-source distributed graph database optimized for storing and processing large-scale graphs within a multi-machine cluster.

Jasim A Basheer[^]:

The best way to learn Ruby best practices is to pair with an experienced dev; the way I learned was by inheriting a reasonably small, but well-written codebase from an amazing colleague. In the absence of either, here is a checklist of 15 things (since 'N things that you need to know about X' is the in-thing these days!) that I'd recommend a Ruby beginner to consider.

CNET[^]:

Intel believes Thunderbolt will remake mobile computing by endowing laptops with a high-speed, versatile port. To match Intel's mainstream ambitions for Thunderbolt, though, Intel will have to prove to hardware designers and to consumers that it's got compelling advantages over the alternatives.

Building Windows 8[^]:

When we started planning the email experience for Windows 8, our goal was to create an app that embodied the Metro style design principles. It needed to be fast and fluid, be great with touch and a keyboard and mouse, focus on your content, provide the right features at the right time, and fulfill our expectations of email on modern devices. Starting from scratch gave us an opportunity to carry forward the essential functions of an email app, while also designing features with a fresh eye and taking advantage of what Windows 8 offers uniquely.

News.com.au[^]:

Online electronics retailer Kogan.com has announced it will be charging customers a 6.8 per cent penalty if they use the "antique" browser Internet Explorer 7 to buy their products.

Encosia[^]:

I’ve been running Windows 8 as my primary OS for several weeks, and I must say (as bizarre as it feels to type these words), IE10 is incredibly fast and fluid. It’s almost like that first time you used Chrome after using Firefox with too many add-ons. Whatever they’re doing over there, it’s working.

ExtremeTech[^]:

Mike Bell, Intel’s chief of mobile, explains why one of the biggest surprises with x86 Android is the fact that app compatibility seems to be a non-issue. “There are two kinds of Android apps,” Bell says. “Those that use Dalvik, and ones that run natively.”