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Technology talks by Loïc d’Anterroches

Friday links a little late

Cross-Site Request Forgeries - If you are playing with AJAX, you should take the time to learn about the security implications.
I Need Smart RSS - If you want to start yet another Web 2.0 company, here is an idea.
Machine tags and ISBNs - The current simple tags are not working anymore, but it looks like the tags in the form of root:key=value like iso:isbn=12345678 will be more useful. Note that no hierarchy are available with this approach, but it is easier than writting RDF directly.
Software as a Service - A list with the benefits but also some key questions about the use of software as a service.
Office 2.0 Database - A list of software as a service.

Tango Fridays - They meet on IRC on Fridays and create a lot of very nice icons…
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Monster Muck Mashup - Mass Video Conversion Using AWS - Great example of what can be done with the services provided by Amazon. Really impressive!
Divmod - Quite some interesting Twisted Python based projects.
Hacking Django, how Bazaar - Tips on using Bazaar to track a Subversion repository.
Strangling Your Code and Growing Your Test Harness - The 9 Phases of Building Automated Tests Into Legacy Code.
Gnome Online Desktop - Get your Desktop to be computer agnostic.
Sun plans open source network attached storage - That would be great to have a small box, with low power comsumption, low noise, with let say 3 drives and a tape backup, all that powered by an open source stack.

Manager - Performance, Image, Exposure - You code and want a raise? Read that first.
En Inde, 250$ le buffle, 12$ un enfant - Cela me rappelle une discussion avec une ingénieur venue faire du suivi d’une usine en Inde (la boite européenne devait produire en Inde car l’Inde a des taxes à l’import qui font que pour vendre en Inde à un prix compétitif, on est obligé de produire en Inde). Dans l’usine ils travaillaient avec des produits ultra toxiques. Quand je dis toxique, je dis : une petite goutte qui se pose sur votre peau et vous êtes mort. L’ingénieur montrait toutes les procédures de sécurité. Réponse du directeur de l’usine (un indien à propos des travailleurs sans caste) : "Vous savez, ceux-là, j’en ai autant que vous voulez, ce n’est pas la peine des les protéger".