Hartbleed and You: Nontechnical Summary If you work at a technology company and have seen a lot of ragged faces today on whoever is responsible for your company’s security, there’s a good chance that CVE-2014-0160 is to blame. Better known as The Heartbleed Bug, this security vulnerability is a bug in an application called OpenSSL that is the centerpiece for a lot of the secure communication that happens on the internet. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 08, 2014 · 2 mins read
March 2014 GAODP Update: Announcing Scorecard Greetings friends. This is the March 2014 update for the Georgia Open Data Project. Posted by Matt Farmer on March 17, 2014 · 10 mins read
Georgia House Bill 907 At the end of January, Creative Loafing published an article talking about taxi companies who were unhappy that Uber and Lyft are able to skirt around requirements that taxi companies have been required to adhere to for years (“Atlanta’s taxi industry declares war on Uber, Lyft”). At the start of February, House Bill 907 was introduced in the State House of Representatives. Ultimately, this bill would require Uber, Lyft, and other similar services to be party to the same broken medallion system that, in my opinion, is broken. Posted by Matt Farmer on February 24, 2014 · 6 mins read
It Doesn't Matter If There's a Bubble There’s a new four letter word in the technology world these days, especially around startups: bubble. David Pollak is a colleague of mine who I deeply respect. We work together on a few different projects, including Lift. Last summer, he had the following conversation on Twitter: Posted by Matt Farmer on February 21, 2014 · 11 mins read
ISO 8601, Date.js, IE8, and You This week I had the particular displeasure of working with Date parsing algorithms across browsers. The internet, in general, has pretty much settled on ISO 8601 and variations thereof as the standard formats for representing date / time information. For example, the W3C specifies a subset of 8601 as the official date/time format in the HTML5 specification and for the datetime attribute of the time element. Posted by Matt Farmer on February 08, 2014 · 6 mins read