This is part 2 of a series on Perl, intended for experienced software developers.
Re-learning Perl has not been easy. Continue reading
This is part 2 of a series on Perl, intended for experienced software developers.
Re-learning Perl has not been easy. Continue reading
Why 2nd languages? With hello world, and readme.pl
I want to help other people kickstart new programming languages. As an experienced developer, you already what a loop is, or any other common feature: you just want to make it work. The goal of my “second language” posts is to provide that level of help. Continue reading
I have been re-learning Perl, for a maintenance project at work. If you don’t have a specific task like that, have more fun while learning, with something like a “joke” program that uses the Fibonacci series to display a list of all the characters Lady Gaga has played in her videos. Or the names of Rebecca Black’s songs. Or maybe something interesting instead.
Good place to start. Lady Black deserves the best: Continue reading
We got a one-year subscription to two season’s of “The Grand Tour”, you know, the new version of “Top Gear” after the team left BBC? Continue reading
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I am presenting a programming workshop at the Ottawa Python Authors Group meeting, 7:30pm, July 27, 2017, at Survey Monkey, 12 York Street, 3rd floor. More info:
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This document is for Build Engineers, DevOps Developers, and the people who hire them: Software Development Manager, VP Software Development, Director of Software Development. The goal of this document is to show how to improve a software environment using modern tools, such as those used in a DevOps environment.
First is a description of Build Engineering, next, how Build Engineering can be modernized with today’s tools and processes, then a discussion of how DevOps relates to a modern Build Engineering system.
The conclusion is that much of DevOps tools and processes are required by modern Build Engineering and can be used to improve any software development environment.
The NIST* has modernized the password rules for US Government Department, specifically the “minimum requirements for federal information systems”. This is supposedly where every IT department gets their rules from, so maybe these better rules will be used, “soonish”, in bank machines and corporate workplaces.
– (Yeah, I said “soonish”. In this case, “soonish=”probably years from now”.)
I will summarize and link to the parts of the draft Guidelines that make passwords easier.
“Draft NIST Special Publication, 800-63B – Digital Identity Guidelines”:
For a longer explanation, see Slava Gomzin’s article on Venture Beat.
* NIST = National Institute of Standards and Technology – part of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce)
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Well! I thought it was a company name, so I never looked it up. As Ian says, “That’s my story, and, I’m gonna stick to it.”
Turns out CAPTCHA means:
Source: nist.gov On that page, look under Definitions and Abbreviations.
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ITO 2.0 is a specialized support service for high tech workers who are unemployed. They offer online training, workshops, career transition help, the works. When I was laid off in Sept, I tried to find it, couldn’t, and assumed it had disappeared. The staff at my local IE office did not connect me to it. Continue reading
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The newer version of ssh-keygen uses SHA256 hash to generate the fingerprint, whereas the older ones used an MD5 hash, which has the “cute widdle colons” between every pair of characters in the hash/fingerprint.
Probably your favorite web service shows the MD5-style hash, with the colons in it. To generate this for your SSH key, use this command line:
ssh-keygen -l -E md5 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Key:
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