Bookmarks for February 19th through February 22nd
These are my links for February 19th through February 22nd:
- Simon Singh: The best explanation of Public Key Encryption I’ve ever read - "I put a message in a box, I close the lid, turn the key and send it to you. But you can't open it because I've still got the key. Some mathematicians, Diffie, Hellman and Merkle thought of another way to think about it.
"How about I put the message in the box, I close the lid and I padlock it and then send it to you. Now you still can't open it. What you do is you put your padlock on it and send it back to me. Then I take my padlock off, send it back to you. You take your padlock off and you open the box." - DreamPie: The Python shell you’ve always dreamed about! - A nice improvement on the standard shell. I'm not sure I'm ready to replace ipython yet, but it has some nice features.
- Marco Armnet on why programmers are the worst audience - Interesting thoughts on the type of audience you gather when you blog on programming topics, and why they behave the way they do.
- Michal Migurski on why Stamen don’t do user research - Really interesting presentation on why user research might not be as valuable as you think, and why Stamen does it's research in public.
- Generation Y - What we really want - part of The Next Great Generation Sex Week - "Perhaps growing up in the overflowing privilege and senseless decadence of the 90s has left us feeling entitled. We want stuff and we want a lot of it; We want results, and we want them fast. GenXers are ambivalent, not caring or feeling. In the words of Lisa Simpson, they “feel neither highs nor lows.” Conversely, Gen Y craves experience, new experience. We want it not because we are a generation of go-getters; we want it because it’s there to be had."
- nodeJuice - Automatic browser refresh on file change - An interesting use of node.js
- Tara Hunt on “Why I’ve Fallen in Love with the Nexus One” - Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow writes about what features of the new Nexus One she enjoys. The answer is the google integration, also the reason I love my G1 and my wife loves her G1
- Deploying a Django Site using FastCGI - Django Advent - Deploying django onto FastCGI instead of Apache