Vulnerabilities

Some code vulnerablities shown on the lsd website could be relevant to the code for code analysis that I started writinng. Part of the rationale is that code signatures (as tracked for instance by antivirus programs) are quite weak, as simple code morphing tools could be used to render the code functionally equivalent but with different hash (MD5, etc) – the most common fingerprinting mechanism.

Nice look and feel for a web site

This site (a hosting company in Brazil) has some interesting ideas I’d like to look into with more detail. One is the floating support ribbon (top right), which seems inobtrusive but effective to keep information handy for the site users. Not to overuse, of course, but for something like that “click me if you need anything” may be a good user interface.

Interesting stuff released by Apple

I was particularly interested in Xcode 3.0. I’m currently using XCode 2.0 to develop an add-in for iPhoto. I had to recall a bit of my NeXT software development skills from a few years back. Objective C is OK, but to me seems quite primitive to go back to program in that language after using Pyhton.
The timeline view of code profiling a-la Garageband looks cool. I can’t wait to see it in action.