Codepope's Development Hell

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It seems to be all going on with the developers of Rubinus, the LLVM JIT-powered Ruby implementation which recently hit version 2.0.0. First came the news that Engine Yard had ended their sponsorship for the project saying that “we no longer feel like the project needs any help from us to accelerate” - the ending of sponsorship will, they say, let them invest more in other emerging projects. With that announcement made, Rubinus lead Brian Shirai said “I have been working to simplify and focus the project”; funding changes do tend to allow projects to step back and look at their goals.

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This morning I was reading this blog posting about reverse engineering backdoors in routers. The punch line is a shocker though - a number of D-link routers have a backdoor which can be triggered by setting the browser’s user agent to backdoor (plus xmlset and a credit to the person who set up the backdoor). Read the posting and if you have any of the affected gear, consider your options. The D in D-Link seems to stand for Derp.

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Say you wanted to build a games machine with an Arduino at its core, you’d might be a trifle stuck with a stock Arduino. You could do a lot of the interfacing to controllers or the logic, but what about the display and sound. Well, previously you may have got a Gameduino which gave you 400x300 512 colour VGA output, hardware sprites and audio in a nifty Arduino shield. It is pure 8 bit epicness.

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This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog