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The Nihilist’s Guide to Wrecking Humans & Systems
Christina Camilleri talks about how social engineering can be used in conjunction with technical attacks to create sophisticated and destructive attack chains and shares some real world war stories.
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Modern iOS Application Security
Dan Guido talks about the current state of iOS attacks, reviews available security APIs, why they are not good enough, and the design of the Mobile Application Security Toolkit to address risks.
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RxJS 5 in Depth
Gerard Sans explains RxJS' data architecture based on reactive programming, exploring Observables API using RxJS koans and unit tests. RxJS 5 focuses on performance and usability.
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Design by Contract in Elixir: “Let It Crash” Meets “It Shouldn’t Crash”
Elba Sanchez explains what Design by Contract is, what can be achieved using it and how it can be used in any kind of projects, from personal to mission-critical software.
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Code Quality in Practice
Bryan Helmkamp discusses insights from analyzing over 1T LoC daily, what makes a code metric valuable, when unmaintainable code may be preferable, and what prevents maintaining quality code over time.
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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th Cent to a Billion Dollars
Olaf Carlson-Wee explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure $B in global bitcoin banks.
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Hash Histories - Toy Blockchains for Great Danger
Chris Anderson discusses Document Coin and using blockchain in new and innovative ways. He presents the JavaScript Cryptography code line by line and runs test cases using Prova in the browser.
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Successful Go Program Design, 6 Years On
Peter Bourgon presents some of the idioms, design patterns, and practices that have proven themselves developing successful, scalable, and sustainable code using Go.
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Pair Programming in the Cloud with Eclipse Che, Eclipse Flux, Orion, Eclipse IDE and Docker
Sun Tan demos a prototype showing multi-editing and real-time collaboration from 3 different editors -Che, Orion, Eclipse- using a Flux microservice running inside a Che Docker runner.
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REST Considered Harmful
Ross Garrett explores how design decisions may be leading to poor UX, discussing the principles of reactive applications and how streaming APIs can deliver significant benefits over RESTful APIs.
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We Need to Talk About Docs
Nik Wakelin discusses why developers dislike writing documentation, what can be done about it and how to improve the process of writing docs.
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Two-Factor Authentication
Phil Nash takes a look at generating one time passwords, implementing two-factor authentication in web applications and the use cases for QR codes.