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Key Management in the Cloud

By Tim Mather
January 7, 2010

Cryptographic key management in the enterprise today is broken. It is a failed model of proprietary 'solutions' that is not effective, nor is it scalable. If we expect key manage-ment to work in the cloud, then we need a new...

Four short links: 7 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 7, 2010

London Datastore to Launch -- the Mayor of London will launch a site full of London data. (via Ed Dumbill) Google Destroyed the Web -- It's hard to disagree with the basic contention that SEO aimed at Google's rankings has fucked the web. It's a vicious circle, too: the more fake content sites are created to game Google, the...

Millions of Plastic Guitars Can't Be Wrong

By David Battino
January 7, 2010

If you make a process easy enough, you can change the world. In 1995, two MIT graduates set out to make music-making easy. Now millions of people play their product, and the inventors are releasing the developer tools for free.

The Watering Hole - The N00B Zoo Review

By James Turner
January 7, 2010

Before you call someone a n00b, you might want to make sure you're not about to get pwned...

Flex 4 Pixel Shader Effects

By Andrew Trice
January 7, 2010

This evening, I stumbled across a great example of some new animation effects possibilities in Flex 4, based on AnimateTransitionShader and PixelBender (pixel shader) effects. I normally try not to just refer to someone else's code example, but these are too cool to not share...

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