Reaching the limits

Recently Distilled Brilliance has undertaken a number of new projects, and we've found that our existing infrastructure isn't keeping up with the legal, accounting, and general technical complexities associated with bigger projects. So we're upgrading a number of internal systems....

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Sliding windows now in Mono

Code from an earlier article was solicited for inclusion into Mono and is now a part of the Mono.Rocks extension methods library.

WordPress talk slides released

Last Thursday, I was graciously invited to give a talk at the University of Virginia's WordPress MUG on securing WordPress installations. For attendee reference, I've posted the slides from the talk on SlideShare here....

TweetFastTweetFurious released

This handy plugin makes issuing Tweets of Fury challenges to your fellow Twitterers a snap.

Python gotcha: Bizarre integer equality

Are two different references to the same integer value the same object? The answer: sometimes.

How to get your IP address from the command line in one shot with curl and sed.

Giving effective technical presentations

Giving great talks means delivering with confidence and in a style that exercises your audience's minds, not just their eyes and ears.

Periscope updated with bit.ly support

As a result of a live-coding session at this year's beCamp, Periscope has been updated to v.0.2.2 and now provides bit.ly support.

If you're a TicTacGo or Periscope user and you like what you see so far, but you'd like some incremental improvement, let me know directly rather than use the Userscripts page. I don't look there very often (perhaps once a...