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Agreed. The cross pollination required to get security into organisations correctly isn't there. Orgs see security as a pain in the ass, and not an investment/insurance policy. I f…

The notion of a national certification plan is being laughed at by anyone who is in the industry for the right reasons. Those involved in the classic commoditised scan-and-bang ass…

While the tech scene in Australia may be behind the times in a few ways (possibly security as well), Troy's view here is in no way affected by living here. This material was create…

For the infosec fans.

Thanks rcconf. Yeah I did feel like a bit of a muppet for missing it. I'm going to say "It was late and I was tired" and try to hide behind that as an excuse ;) I'm pretty sure I w…

This seems like a rather unjustified and wanton punishment to me. I can't see anything in his history that is worthy of such treatment. I scan around other areas of HN and see peop…

You said that you don't like the availability issues then state "but at the moment MongoDB is about as good as it gets."? Just. Wow. Get your head out of the sand mate. MongoDB is …

That is definitely part of it. When I first started writing I needed to remind myself of this quite a lot. Thankfully I haven't really needed to do that for quite a while now. I en…

I agree with your points. It is hard to make something this small have meaning across the board. This is part of the reason why I targeted the thought at tech blogging in particula…

At no point did I say "hide your writing". I think it's clear that the sentiment of the post was not to hide the stuff that you write, but instead to write for the right reasons. I…

Thanks for the comment. You're correct, I didn't write this for myself. I decided to post it after a conversation with a few people on Twitter earlier today. I wanted to post somet…

I'm a huge fan of http://pointhq.com/

hook.io sits on top of Node.js and deals with IO. How on earth does this relate to Nirvana's goal of having something like Node.js for Erlang?

This is the most interesting point made so far. Agreed, I had not considered the likes of FSI. That does come with the issue of being painful reading XML config from app.config fil…

Thanks again for the comment. Your "protip" implies that "needed" is a known quantity, which it isn't in this case. It's a new project, new development without any clients at all. …

I agree with the point about the ConnectionFactory. That is something I still don't like. It's there, at the moment, to make it easy to test certain parts of the app. We'll look to…

equark, I don't think you were being overly negative. It just tends to be common for people on HN to be more terse than necessary and sometimes things can come across the wrong way…

jallman, You're right, we are making a few assumptions, which to me is natural given that this is v0.1.0. It hasn't been used it production because it never existed before now. I f…

gecko, Our design was not modeled on any existing library's approach to configuration. It was designed based on what we perceived the needs of the application to be. I think making…

Hi equark, Thanks for the question. Yes there are reasons why there are such differences between the CorrugatedIron configuration and that of the project you have linked to. To und…

Webmachine uses Mochiweb behind the scenes, hence the reloader comes for free in this setup. Distel is specific to Emacs. In this series I don't want to discuss which editor to use…

Details of this is coming in a future post. The early parts of the series are focussed on the development environment set up :)

The company thing still comes with a caveat in that you have to prove that you're not just using it as an umbrella to reduce your tax. There are a set of tests that a company goes …

Conditions aren't the important bit imho mate. The important bit is that you can still be got rid of fairly easily (unless you work in the public service, which seems almost imposs…