Gopal.V - Slashdot User

Submission + - Apple granted patent on ORM

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t3rmin4t0r

on Thursday October 26, 2006 @05:42AM

t3rmin4t0r writes: "Apple has just been granted patent #7,127,474 by the USPTO. The idea is the basis and concept for a large number of ORM sub-systems in J2EE or Ruby on Rails. Even though I expect Sun and others to pay a royalty to apple, it raises some interesting contradictions for rails shipping with Leopard. But still you can't argue with the relevance of the patent.

And for the fear of tainting ORM developers — please do NOT RTF PATENT if you are one. Just say No! to software patents."

Submission + - Google Earth buffer overflow exploit discovered

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t3rmin4t0r

on Friday October 13, 2006 @03:37PM

t3rmin4t0r writes: "A buffer overflow exploit has been detected in Google Earth. The vulnerability uses a malformed .kml file, subscribed or automatically refreshed by the application. It is being disputed whether this could be used to insert a canned payload (like the vnc dlls) — but nobody really has come out with the code, so far.

The Linux version of Google Earth and the NASA WorldWind's KMLImporter are not reported as vulnerable."

Submission + - Yahoo! Login for your website

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t3rmin4t0r

on Sunday October 01, 2006 @12:10AM

t3rmin4t0r writes: "Yahoo! has brought out a new auth system for their single-sign-on system, which lets other third party websites to authenticate and access user content, after user login. Or as the ydn blog said "Our Users Can Be Your Users Too". The Yahoo! Photos api, which uses this, has already been announced and if I read the cards right, a Yahoo! Mail api is currently being demo'd before the open hackday participants."

Submission + - Yahoo! launches Ruby Developer Center

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t3rmin4t0r

on Thursday September 21, 2006 @03:34PM

t3rmin4t0r writes: "Yahoo! has launched a Ruby Developer Center adding another language to their Developer Network toolkit. The site includes tutorials on how to access the popular Yahoo! web services with ruby such as using the Term Extraction or the del.icio.us REST apis. If you want to get in touch with the developers or other users, there is a ydn-ruby mailing list. Here is the official announcement.

Apparently, the ruby version of the toolkit has come out of a spare time project. So ... can I have my perl support tomorrow ?"

Submission + - Yahoo! opens up Hack Day

Submitted by on Monday August 28, 2006 @09:40AM

Gopal.V writes: As part of their Y! Developer Network programme, Yahoo! is holding a developer only two-day event — Sept 29th & 30th. You can read more about it on hackday.org or techcrunch. The idea seems to to extend the energy and enthusiasm that came out of the Hack Days, purely internally and add a little zing to it in terms of external contributors, not to mention a bit of community interaction.

Considering all the cool stuff that has come out of the original hack days (as ycoolthing shows), this could be really a good idea. So if you've been hacking away with some random Y! api, here's a stage for you to show up and beat the masters at their own game.

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