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Speclenium Accessibility Testing
"Speclenium has come of age… It is now possible to extract pretty interesting comparisons of browser accessibility API implementations.
Here are a two comparisons between Firefox nightly builds, and Internet Explorer 8 beta 2."
OH, I Like Surprises!
Jeremiah says: "Gary McGraw (CTO, Cigital) provides a must-read article this week, Software Security Top 10 Surprises. Gary, along with Brian Chess (Chief Scientist, Fortify) and Sammy Migues (Director, Knowledge Management, Cigital), interviewed nine executives running top software security programs and provided their analysis. I’m always curious to know what the more progressive organizations are doing regarding software security. Some organizations take up a leadership position and the rest will follow -- eventually. I’ve highlighted several snippets that were specifically interesting to me."
Google Earth Setup Defaults to an Installation of Chrome As Well
I hated it when: Sun tried to install NetBeans when you wanted Java (and now Silverlight??), Toolbar with Flash, Safari with iTunes, and I equally dislike Google Earth DEFAULTING to install Chrome. I don't like agendas pushed on me and it just feels wrong (was tempted to say evil).
Atmosphere: Java Comet
"Atmosphere is a POJO based framework using Inversion of Control (IoC) to bring push/Comet to the masses! Finally a framework which can run on any Java based Web Server, including Tomcat,Jetty, GlassFish,Resin, Jersey,RESTlet etc..... without having to wait for Servlet 3.0 or without the needs to learn how push/Comet support has been differently implemented by all those Containers."