Linked List: July 12, 2013

Friday, 12 July 2013

Igloo 

My thanks to Igloo for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Igloo bills itself as “an intranet you’ll actually like”, which is a perfect description. Igloo offers blogs, calendars, file sharing, forums, microblogs (think: private Twitter), and wikis. Everything you’d want. It’s all modern (including responsive design for mobile devices), and all configurable.

Igloo is free to use with up to ten people, so you can start building your own Igloo today or check out their Sandwich Videos.

HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors in Enterprise Storage 

Slashdot:

This isn’t the first time HP has been caught inserting backdoors into enterprise products without telling customers. In 2010 it was forced to admit a secret backdoor in its StorageWorks systems that could be accessed by anyone using the account name “admin” and password “!admin”.

That’s my password for everything: my username with exclamation in the front. Unguessable.

Lawyer Sues Apple for Not Protecting Him From Porno Addiction 

From Nashville attorney Chris Sevier’s legal filing:

UNFAIR COMPETITION AND INTERFERENCE OF THE MARITAL CONTRACT: The Plaintiff became totally out of synch in his romantic relationship with his wife, which was a consequence of his use of his Apple product. The Plaintiff began desiring, younger more beautiful girls featured in porn videos than his wife, who was no longer 21. His failed marriage caused the Plaintiff to experience emotional distress to the point of hospitalization. The Plaintiff could no longer tell the difference between internet pornography and tangible intercourse due to the content he accessed through the Apple products, which failed to provide him with warnings of the dangers of online pornography whatsoever.

Been a busy week for Apple’s legal department. Via John Moltz.

Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow 

Drew Crawford:

So what I’m going to do in this post is try to bring some actual evidence to bear on the problem, instead of just doing the shouting match thing. You’ll see benchmarks, you’ll hear from experts, you’ll even read honest-to-God journal papers on point. There are — and this is not a joke — over 100 citations in this blog post. I’m not going to guarantee that this article will convince you, nor even that absolutely everything in here is totally correct — it’s impossible to do in an article this size — but I can guarantee this is the most complete and comprehensive treatment of the idea that many iOS developers have — that mobile web apps are slow and will continue to be slow for the foreseeable future.

Remarkably detailed analysis. Must-read piece. The comments are rather fascinating as well — denial runs strong among the web app true believers.