Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey

Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey
Scott Granneman, 2005-08-08

I have nothing but the greatest respect for Jon Udell. His "Strategic Developer" column is the first thing I read when my copy of InfoWorld magazine arrives in the mail, and his blog is one of the best if you're interested in the technical aspects of web development, standards, and practices. If blogging is enjoyable because it allows us to watch an interesting mind at work, then Jon Udell's blog is definitely among the most enjoyable.

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Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-10
Anonymous

MICROSOFT is a proponent of minimizing attack surface area? That's their biggest problem and they haven't learned to fix it yet.
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GreaseMonkey not vulnerable with NoScript 2005-08-11
ma1

GreaseMonkey users who have the NoScript extension installed (http://www.noscript.net) were/are not affected by GreaseMonkey vulnerabilities, because user scripts are allowerd to run only on trusted (whitelisted) sites....

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Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-12
Daryl Shockey (1 replies)

Am I the only one who grows tired of Scott Granneman's endless droning about the wonders of open source and the evils of Microsoft? Were it not for the fact that he purports to be objective in his write-ups, I might be a bit less irritated. Scott harbors a certain resentment of the world of commerci...

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Re: Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-18
Richard Leydorf (1 replies)

"They usually don't know why they need the component, but for YEARS (before the problem we have today) we 'computer scientists' taught people to click 'Yes' or 'OK' when prompted about something they didn't understand."

Speak for yourself, Daryl. I've been doing this since 1987. I and lots of oth...

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Re: Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-26
Daryl Shockey

> Speak for yourself, Daryl. I've been doing this since 1987. I and lots of other admins
> have always told users not to click anything unless they know what they're doing.

That might be the case Richard, but for years, tech people generally have had two choices when explaining concepts like, ...

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Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-22
BC

I loved this quote: "The real power of any software model is in its ability to deal with the aftermath of discovered vulnerabilities, not with how it was developed in the first place."

Say WHAT?!? The software model has an impact on both the ability to deal with discovered vulnerabilities as well...

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