Monthly Archives: April 2009
Tokyo train map meets Internet powerhouses
Web Trend Map 4 Final Beta Originally uploaded by formforce Cute.
A sensible approach to source code branching
Source code branching is one of the most contentious activity that you can engage in a software company. For some reason that’s eluding me, I keep hearing the same arguments over and over again about why we should not use … Continue reading
Robots
Somewhat unrelated to the topic of data crunching and computing I wanted to mention an eye-opening book about robots: Wired for War by P.W. Singer.
Fun but not pratical: cloud computing steganography
Differential Power Analysis is a neat way to cryptanalyze smart cards and that triggered an interesting counter-measure: keeping power consumption constant regardless of the computation performed. Moving to a bigger scale and assuming low cloud compute costs, one could hide … Continue reading
#Cloudcamp: storing sensitive data in a public cloud
Yesterday at CloudCamp, a few of us discussed methods to store and use sensitive data on a public cloud, where you presumably do not have strong assurances that your data are for your eyes only. To keep structured data (e.g. … Continue reading
