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ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.
The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake
Did Ken, Dennis, and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings?
The Robustness Principle Reconsidered
In 1981, Jon Postel formulated the Robustness Principle. Although described for implementations of TCP, it was quickly accepted as a good proposition for implementing network protocols in general. It's simple, easy to understand, and intuitively obvious. But is it correct?
Heterogeneous systems allow us to target our programming to the appropriate environment.
Microsoft’s Protocol Documentation Program: Interoperability Testing at Scale
A discussion with Nico Kicillof, Wolfgang Grieskamp, and Bob Binder.
If You Have Too Much Data, Then ‘Good Enough’ Is Good Enough
In today's humongous database systems, clarity may be relaxed, but business needs can still be met.
Does Deterrence Work in Reducing Information Security Policy Abuse By Employees?
Methods for evaluating and effectively managing the security behavior of employees.
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
Returning Control to the Programmer: SIMD Intrinsics For Virtual Machines
Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power.
A Co-Relational Model of Data For Large Shared Data Banks
Contrary to popular belief, SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin.
Testable System Administration
As we progress into an information age, humans will need to work less like the machines they use and embrace knowledge-based approaches. That means exploiting simple automation that leaves us unencumbered to discover patterns and make decisions.
National Internet Defense – Small States on the Skirmish Line
Despite the global and borderless nature of the Internet's underlying protocols and driving philosophy, there are significant ways in which it remains substantively territorial.
B.Y.O.C (1,342 Times and Counting)
Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?
Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
Ideally, all software should be easy to use and accessible for a wide range of people. However, software often falls short of these basic goals. We therefore need ways to help us discover usability and accessibility problems efficiently and effectively.
A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts
What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?
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