Link Stew http://www.stsci.edu/~bsimon/index.html Links of Interest to Programmers ratproxy - passive web application security assessment tool http://tinyurl.com/6kyf7h Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments. Where's the goal line? http://tinyurl.com/4ewln4 One thing I'm not clear on -- Rakudo is passing 1100 tests out of how many? IE, where's the goal line? Well, the "goal line" is by definition a moving target. There's not a hard number we can cite -- even in Perl 5 the size of the test suite constantly changes as new features are added and new bugs are found. There will be a point at which we declare a particular set of tests as being the "official test suite" for Perl 6.0.0, but we're really not close to that point yet. My Mixed Feelings about Ruby http://tinyurl.com/3jfyrr Theres a part of my personality that craves purity and regularity in a system. Purity and regularity have practical benefits, to be sure, but at the same time there are practical benefits to being messy and having special cases optimizing for things people do frequently. This is why design is freakin hard. Its not as easy as following a bunch of rules that produce a system with the smallest possible intellectual surface area, otherwise wed have stopped with Scheme and its five axiomatic special forms. CSS Nesting Specifics - When CSS Misbehaves http://tinyurl.com/3vgk9d What's really going on here is a difference in interpretation from the human mind and the way css is applied. It's in fact the following little rule that's messing things up: in case two css selectors have equal specificity, the last one will be applied. This makes sense from a logical point of view i.e. the easiest and safest way to implement, but not from a human point of view. Mixins, generic routines and enums http://tinyurl.com/4w8uvj Rakudo day came around again, and I pushed everything else that is keeping me busy these days aside and focused on getting more of Perl 6 implemented. This week there are a handful of new features; as is the norm of late, I have been continuing my focus on the object model and the type system. So, what's new? Probably the most major new feature this week is that you can now compose roles into an object at runtime, mix-in style.