Priocept Blog
Although the Jacquard Loom does not compute, is does feature stored programs in the form of external punched cards. These programs are not tied to a specific machine, and a machine can be supplied with numerous different punched cards, and therefore can weave many different patterns.
Priocept has recently been working with Apache Solr, a kind of “Lucene on steriods”, which fast approaches a NoSQL database when used for applications such as geodata and automatic data categorisation (as used on eBay).
Read more Leave a Comment September 1, 2010 Matthew Skelton
Adobe Flex at the presentation layer often presents an obstacle for security testers, especially if the application uses ActionScript Message Format (AMF) to send data across the wire.
Read more Leave a Comment June 9, 2010 Matthew Skelton
CAPTCHA is broken, so relying on a working telephone number with voice prompts makes it much harder for spam-bots/machines to interact with the system like this.
Windows Server AppFabric is Microsoft’s implementation of a distributed cache, the most well-known example of which is memcached, as used on LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Twitter, etc.
Read more Leave a Comment March 16, 2010 Matthew Skelton