Password Insecurity Quickfix
I just happened upon this brute force calculator and it amazes me how just one word, “Password”, has kept security back soooo many years. Our “passwords” require numbers and symbols and can’t be based on dictionary words and have to be changed and all of this nonsense. It has obviously made people use the same password, or 3 passwords, over and over again, reducing their value immensely. According to my bank’s ruleset, a great password would [...]
Developer Networking Events
I just got back from an ExtJS meetup going over some of the new ExtJS 4 features. Aside from the NOVA Python group, this was the first developer focused meetup I’ve been at in awhile. The most striking part of the meetup was that nobody introduced themselves. People showed up right on time, and everyone left once the show was over. This isn’t really surprising of course. Developers care more about the code and that [...]
Whoops, I’m on Hackernews
Yesterday my post on Nasdaq ITCH made it onto Hackernews. I got over 1700 uniques, and 16 comments on Hackernews (all surprisingly nice for my level of knowledge on the subject). I have no idea if my site handled the traffic well, as I wasn’t watching and I have little more then Google Analytics watching the site. I feel a little uneasy about it though. I have this site to force myself to write. Hopefully [...]
Nasdaq ITCH
I recently read through Veryon’s posts on bootstrapping a low latency HFT and I was intrigued. I had really thought that all automated trading was simply watching stock prices, comparing to different algorithms, and making decisions. I didn’t see any reason why you would need low latency or anything like that. I learned a lot. I like the idea of doing things fast and using algorithms that I never get to use during my normal [...]
CloudFoundry Python Support
I am very interested by VMWare’s CloudFoundry Platform solution because it is open to any infrastructure, including private clouds. Its also open source, and there are many people involved in building it up. It is built on Ruby, and therefore has its strongest roots in the Ruby community, but there are also some Python folks involved. I went to Garethr’s Github page (his blog is here) to check out his additions to CloudFoundry. He has [...]
