Don't Short Circuit a Lesson
Don’t short circuit a lesson because you think you know what the take away is going to be. Too often we try to map other’s experiences or recommendations to our own and we miss ...
Scale Your Solution to the Problem
It’s important to Scale your solution to the problem at hand vs. trying to scale the problem to your solution. By analogy a master photographer knows when to pull out her iPhone...
Ruby open allows command injection if user controlled
We’ve been getting a lot of Ruby on Rails Penetration tests and code reviews at Security Innovaiton, and I’ve been writing a decent amount of it myself. In general it’s a great ...
My New Record Player and Beck - Morning Phase (The Vinyl Experience)
I’ve wanted a record player for years now, finally after listening to me hem and haw about it my wonderful wife, Katherine, bought me a fantastic player for my birthday. I’ve be...
NASA Forced to Suspend All Public Outreach & Education Programs
Yesterday was a sad day for NASA who were forced to halt all education and public outreach activities including public engagement out outreach events, programs, activities and p...
Joe_CMS Open Source!
I’m happy to say that tonight I’ll be publishing JoeCMS as a free and open source (GPL), as evidenced by the little “Fork me on GitHub” banner in the upper right corner of this ...
My Reading Cycle
I don’t read a lot, but over the last few years I’ve developed a book choice cycle that works really well for me. It helps me finish challenging books that I want to read for de...