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Heisencoder: September 2008

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Monday, September 15, 2008. Joel Spolsky Co-Launches "Stack Overflow" programmer's forum. One of my favorite programming bloggers, Joel Spolsky. His latest co-project:   Stack Overflow. I browsed the site a little bit and couldn't find any big complaints about the user interface, although I haven't tried posting yet (I did get a 'bronze medal', though, for filling out my biographical information! 160;They've got syntax highlighting on the code samples, so it can't be too bad. Links to this post. Applicat...

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Heisencoder: Joel Spolsky Co-Launches "Stack Overflow" programmer's forum

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Monday, September 15, 2008. Joel Spolsky Co-Launches "Stack Overflow" programmer's forum. One of my favorite programming bloggers, Joel Spolsky. His latest co-project:   Stack Overflow. I browsed the site a little bit and couldn't find any big complaints about the user interface, although I haven't tried posting yet (I did get a 'bronze medal', though, for filling out my biographical information! 160;They've got syntax highlighting on the code samples, so it can't be too bad. October 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM.

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Heisencoder: January 2009

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Monday, January 19, 2009. Matt Ball on Technology" is now "Heisencoder". Short story: I've changed the name and URL of this blog from "Matt Ball on Technology" (blog.mvballtech.com) to "Heisencoder" (heisencoder.net), and have updated the theme to better accommodate posting source code. I tried to keep this in mind when I created Heisencoder. The term "Heisencoder" is a concatenation of Heisenberg (as in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Which means a computer bug that changes when a programmer attem...

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Heisencoder: July 2012

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Okay, Maybe I Am Gone. Who am I fooling? This blog really hasn't been updated for 3 years now. I'm decreeing this blog (mostly) dead. For further public updates, please see my Google Plus Page. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Okay, Maybe I Am Gone. Matt Ball's Home Page. View my complete profile.

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Heisencoder: February 2011

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011. No, I'm Not Gone. For the one person who is still following this blog, I wanted to drop a quick note to let you know I'm still here and fully plan to write some more interesting code-related entries for 2011. Here's a quick run-down of what's happened to me over the last year:. The biggest event is that Google hired me last October to work on a Software Developer's Kit. SDK) for the new Chrome Native Client. We're also doing another Key Management Summit. Links to this post.

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Heisencoder: April 2008

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Follow-up to Hitachi's Announcement of AES-256 Encryption Within a Hard Disk. As many readers noticed, last week Slashdot covered. That Fujitsu is the first to offer 256-bit AES encryption. In their  MHZ2 CJ Series. 160;320 GB 2.5" hard drives.  As chair of the IEEE P1619 Security in Storage Working Group. 1 What is the mode of operation for the AES block cipher (e.g., ECB, CBC, CTR, etc)? We don't disclose this. 2 How are the 256-bit AES keys managed? We don't disclose this.

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Heisencoder: Heartland Payment Systems Compromised

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Monday, February 9, 2009. Heartland Payment Systems Compromised. I just got a letter in the mail (dated February 5, 2009) from my credit union stating that my "Visa Credit Card may have been compromised as a result of an unauthorized intrusion into Heartland Payment Systems." This story hit the news on January 20, 2009, and was covered by USA Today. And others. Heartland has put up a website. May 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM. You're working to solve this problem by encrypting all data saved on tape drives by compa...

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Heisencoder: How to fix NetBeans IDE when it has dark tabs

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009. How to fix NetBeans IDE when it has dark tabs. Sometimes on Windows, you can have Java configured in such a way that the NetBeans IDE. Integrated Development Environment) will use a dark background (like black) on all the inactive tabs, making them difficult (or impossible) to read. Here's an example of what this might look like:. As it turns out, there is no way in NetBeans itself to fix this problem, at least that I've found. You can't change the color scheme or anything.

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Heisencoder: February 2009

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Monday, February 9, 2009. Heartland Payment Systems Compromised. I just got a letter in the mail (dated February 5, 2009) from my credit union stating that my "Visa Credit Card may have been compromised as a result of an unauthorized intrusion into Heartland Payment Systems." This story hit the news on January 20, 2009, and was covered by USA Today. And others. Heartland has put up a website. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Heartland Payment Systems Compromised. Matt Ball's Home Page.

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Heisencoder: December 2009

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009. 2010 IEEE Key Management Summit. Maybe I'm something of a glutton for punishment, but we're going to run another installment of the successful IEEE. KMS) The focus of KMS is on the challenges of securely managing cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt data. Last year, we held the first KMS 2008. With the 2008 MSST. The next Key Management Summit ( KMS2010. One from the NSA. Several from standards organizations that are involved with key management (IETF, OASIS, IEEE to nam...