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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry

We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.

Using Free and Open Source Tools to Manage Software Quality
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Using Free and Open Source Tools to Manage Software Quality

An agile process implementation

The Science of Managing Data Science
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The Science of Managing Data Science

Lessons learned managing a data science research team.

Disambiguating Databases
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Disambiguating Databases

Use the database built for your access model.

A New Software Engineering
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A New Software Engineering

What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development?

Certificate Transparency
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Certificate Transparency

Public, verifiable, append-only logs.

Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market

Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.

Securing the Tangled Web
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Securing the Tangled Web

Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.

Undergraduate Software Engineering
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Undergraduate Software Engineering

Addressing the needs of professional software development.

Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts

A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta

The NSA and Snowden
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.

Center Wheel For Success
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Center Wheel For Success

"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.

Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance
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Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance

Merging the art and science of software development.

The Antifragile Organization
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The Antifragile Organization

Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.

Rethinking Passwords
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Rethinking Passwords

Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?

Browser Security
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Browser Security: Appearances Can Be Deceiving

A discussion with Jeremiah Grossman, Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace, and George Neville-Neil

The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure Until We Break It
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The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure Until We Break It

Unless you have taken very particular precautions, assume every website you visit knows exactly who you are.

The Essence of Software Engineering
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The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel

A thinking framework in the form of an actionable kernel.

Resilience Engineering
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Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure

A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.

Weathering the Unexpected
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Weathering the Unexpected

Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
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