Practical Technology

For longer than some of you have been alive, I’ve been preaching the gospel of using more secure desktop operating systems. You see, Windows has been insecure since 1985’s Windows 1.0, really an MS-DOS extension, rolled out the door. Then, as now,…Read More

Fred Brooks died last month at age 91. Thanks to his best-selling software development management book, The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering, he became a programming and management legend. Over the decades, I’ve met many tech…Read More

A new class of software supply chain vulnerability in GitHub Actions and Rust leverages artifact poisoning to attack the underlying software development pipelines. People are way too inclined to believe that just because some program, language,…Read More

At the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) in New York City, the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) Dec. 8 announced the results of its 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey. The results were — to no one’s surprise — that…Read More

Opinion Linus Torvalds is happy to tell you that Linux release numbers aren’t a big deal. As the Linux supremo said of the 6.0 release: “Despite the major number change, there’s nothing fundamentally different about this release – I’ve long eschewed…Read More

It has been about a year since the security hole at the heart of the open source Java logging library Apache Log4j was revealed. The resulting zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, aka Log4Shell, is still with us today. That’s crazy! But it’s true.…Read More