Last week people in one of the various web forums I’m in started complaining about the new "WordPress" user interface for posting and how they couldn’t easily add images or access their Media Library. I and others were completely confused…
Jul 11
CloudFlare Releases Open Source CFSSL, a TLS/SSL Toolkit
Yesterday the folks over at CloudFlare introduced their “CFSSL” toolkit for working with TLS (SSL) certificates. Their blog post explains what CFSSL is all about, and they have also made the code available along with further documentation on Github: https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, their blog post has some Read more…
Jul 11
A Hosting Provider Marketing “Secure Hosting with SSL, DNSSEC and DANE / TLSA”
I have no idea whether “dotplex” is a good web hosting provider in Germany and I know absolutely nothing about them as a company, but as a DNSSEC advocate I was absolutely thrilled to see dotplex marketing the fact that you could have DNSSEC and DANE if you host with them: Pure awesomeness! Of course, they Read more…
Jul 11
ACM: Python Now The Most Popular Intro Language At Top US Universities
As a long-time fan of the python language, I was intrigued by this post on the ACM’s blog: “Python is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities“. The post begins with a summary:
At the time of writing (July 2014), …
Jul 11
Live In 2 Hours – Today’s VUC Call About The Future of Video With Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov
In just about 2 hours at 12 noon US Eastern time the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) should have an extremely interesting session about "The Future of Video" featuring Bernard Aboba and Emil Ivov. Bernard works for Microsoft on their Lync…
Jul 11
New IPv6 Case Studies Out… But None From Application Developers!
As part of my job at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, we recently published a whole new batch of IPv6 case studies during the 2nd “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch. However, if you scan down that list of case …
Jul 11
TDYR #164 – Name Problems – And The Challenges Of Designing Web Forms For Global Names
How do you best design web forms for the many different kinds of “personal names” that are used all over the world? In this episode I talk about a personal example of mine and also about this page at the W3C’s website and a recent discussion on Hacker…
Jul 11
New IPv6 Case Studies Out… But None From Application Developers!
As part of my job at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, we recently published a whole new batch of IPv6 case studies during the 2nd “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch. However, if you scan down that list of case studies you’ll see one interesting omission: There are NO case studies from application developers! None. Zilch. […]
Jul 08
Now Available – A Trend Chart Tracking DNSSEC Validation Globally (Featured Blog)
How can we track the amount of DNSSEC validation happening globally? Is there a way we can see the trend over time to (we hope!) see validation rise? At the recent excellent DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 50 in London Geoff Huston let me know that his APNIC …
