Arc Tangent

Episode 2! This show we cover some errata which turned into a mini-​feature sec­tion with updates on web­fonts, notably devel­op­ments at TypeCon2009 and thoughts con­cern­ing EOT — if the pro­pri­etary com­pres­sion tech­nol­ogy was not used and URL/​domain root bind­ing wasn’t in effect then could it be the web font we could all use and pick up tomor­row? Also: men­tioned: a neg­a­tive Microsoft stigma, shitty Safari @font-face web­font han­dling dur­ing the down­load of the font file, and a note on where to find good, freely licensed fonts for @font-face font link­ing (see the links below).

The sec­ond fea­ture focuses on secu­rity, with good­ness for all. We cover briefly impor­tant points for sys admins before address­ing secu­rity con­cerns for devel­op­ers. Next up Pas­cal pro­vides your weekly dose of wank with more secu­rity related [Sort of? –Andy] design and user expe­ri­ence mus­ings and finally both Andy and Pas­cal fin­ish the sec­tion with some advice for man­agers and the legal folk who deal with web content.

Andy closes the pod­cast with a big ‘fuck you’ to a cer­tain pop­u­lar com­pany named after a fruit who are doing awfully stu­pid things by deny­ing cer­tain appli­ca­tions from being sold in their stu­pidly con­trolled appli­ca­tion store (HINT: I’M TALKING ABOUT APPLE), and a joint ‘fuck you’ to buy​.com (et al.).

We should note the Open Atrium review is com­ing — we’ve both been busy or between doors too much in the past week.

In order of appearance:

• Can­berra Google Wave Hackathon — Sign up fast!
• TypeCon2009 Web Fonts Panel Recording
• ttf2eot con­verter utility
• HTTP Access Con­trol Mozilla Devel­oper Cen­ter article
• List­ings of TTF/​OTF freely embed­d­a­ble, licensed fonts: http://​www​.fontsquir​rel​.com and http://​tr​.im/​w​e​b​f​o​n​t​s​l​ist
• SQL Injec­tion Attacks (Wikipedia)
• Cross-​site script­ing attacks
• Secu­rity Now Episode 195 on SSL
• Bruce Schneier’s blog
• Inse­cure Pass­words in use by secu­rity pro­fes­sion­als (Dean Kamin­sky gets hacked, arti­cle c/​o Wired​.com)
• The buy​.com (and Orb­itz, et al.) credit card third-​party adver­tiser scandal

This show is licensed Cre­ative Com­mons Attribution-​Noncommercial-​Share Alike 2.5 Australia

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