While complaints about the commercialization of scholarly research publication have been common to academics and librarians (for generations), Elsevier’s recent support for U.S. SOPA, PIPA and Research Works Act legislation has crystallized some of the opposition that has otherwise been … Continue reading
If you’re finding yourself more frequently developing, testing or deploying infrastructure in EC2, and if perl is part of your stack, as it tends to be for library applications, then you’ve probably had occasion to ask “what CPAN hosts should … Continue reading
If we accept that account information is regularly and inevitably going to be exposed, as the litany of recent breaches suggests, the next question is how to design a system’s security to survive it. You can tell your users not … Continue reading
