Following the recent YAML parsing vulnerabilities in Rails, I decided to act on an idea I had a few months ago: using route constraints to define strict API contracts in Rails.

SSL is slow. These cryptographic algorithms eat the CPU, there is too much traffic, it is too hard to deploy correctly. SSL is slow. Isn't it?

HELL NO!

I just released Pilot SSH, a server administration application for iPhone. So, why another SSH application? Aren't there dozens of these already?

Here is a small idea that I would like to throw into the world: most web applications use only one database user for most operations (installation, administration, common usage). Couldn't we harness the database to protect a bit your data?

As you can see, we are doing a KickStarter for the Windows 8 (WinRT) port of VLC media player. The goal is to take our existing code, which already works on Windows 8's "desktop mode", and make it run on WinRT, the "Metro" interface.