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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 2005-08-12
Daryl Shockey (1 replies)
Re: Greasing the wheel with Greasemonkey 2005-08-18
Richard Leydorf (1 replies)
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 as how those vulnerabilities were introduced by the developers in the first place. The attitude of the Greasemonkey developers is just as much of a weakness in the Open Source model (any halfway-decent programmer can write and publish a decent but imperfect program containing serious security issues), as the community response was in getting the problem fixed.

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