Russell Ballestrini

Internet entities often desire to communicate securely, some reasons include: Web Servers: Communication on the Internet, or any network for that matter, should be encrypted before transmitting sensitive data.

What are the differences between message confidentiality and message integrity?

Today I lost a customer.

tldr; When faced with pivoting or killing a project, take a good look at all possible by-products.

Flash Meeting In a office or cubicle environment a group of uninvited people gather and hover around your desk to talk to you.

We made the number one spot on Hacker News.

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If career development was a game of chutes and ladders, job networking would be the ladder.

I'm petrified of launching my web application because I'm fearful that I won't ... acquire users support my users well scale in a timely manner react quickly to feedback monetize the application But most of all I'm scared that nobody will like me.

This graph could happen to you if you ever forget to configure munin email alerting: It only took approximately 1 hour to diagnoses and resolve this issue however most of my web applications hosted on this server were down for about 11 hours.

Occupy Wall Street contributors claim to use a "stack" to determine speaking arrangements.

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Some of my resent works using my Ubuntu + Wacom Bamboo + MyPaint + Gimp Workflow!

I cancelled my xbox live automatic renewal today because I no longer use the service.

I had network issues after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 which has the linux 3.0 kernel.

Early web pilgrims of the Internet fashioned search queries like link:russell.ballestrini.net to gather backlinks for a domain.

I ran into an issue when testing skeleton css framework and twitter bootstrap where some browsers were not rendering the pages properly.

https://linkpeek.com The LinkPeek API had an alpha release!

MVP (Minimal Viable Product): The smallest version of your idea that produces value for customers. https://www.remarkbox.com Recently I have contemplated the idea of building a screen capture service for websites.

In loom of the recent and persisting hurricane season I present a "Hacker's Olive Oil Lamp"!

Some operating systems depend on a specific version of python to function properly.

Brett & Kate McKay from artofmanliness.com recently subscribed to an idea that America has succumbed to "spectatoritis, a blanket description to cover all kinds of passive amusement, an entering into the handiest activity merely to escape boredom."

Python Image Grabber pig.py Python Image Grabber or pig.py is a very simple python command line tool to download all the images from a given uri.

In loom of recent internet attacks many institutions have started scrambling in attempt to "strengthen" their security stance.

In a perfect world we should create backups but never need them.

Programming is like Alchemy except instead of exchanging matter, we programmers exchange time.

The Great Gist Heist I have crawled, downloaded, and archived all of gist.github.com.

Last night I decided to learn how to use git for its popularity and github to code more socially.

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Recently I built https://school.yohdah.com a Python, Pyramid, and mongoDB project during the last couple weekends.

ATT Uverse Residential Gateway Broadband LED flashes red intermittently I have struggled with my uverse Internet and TV service randomly and intermittently shutting off for the last 3 months.

Connecticut killed affliate marketing with Amazon.com I just opened my amazon account and read this: Account Closed This account is closed and will not generate referrals.

Derek Newton recently invoked discussion about insecurities in Dropbox authentication.

This article will cover running a Voice Over IP service like TeamSpeak on a VPS.

As you may have noticed, I recently switched this blog over to the ChaosTheory Wordpress theme.

Over the weekend I wrote virt-back, a backup utility for QEMU, KVM, XEN, or Virtualbox guests. virt-back is a python application that uses the libvirt API to safely shutdown, gzip, and restart guests.

RE: https://worldoftea.org/caffeine-and-l-theanine As the original article speculates, the combination and amount of L-Theanine and caffeine present in tea, appears to have notable affects on my programming and problem solving abilities.

Yes, it has been done.

For Christmas this year my wife gifted me a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet.

Stack Overflow was a progressive and natural evolution of the standard clunky forum.

I have placed bread.py, a python breadcrumb module, into the public domain.

For the past two months I have feverishly worked on my side project.

Recently while surfing pandora I stumbled upon a new favorite song, "Think Straight Again", composed by a ska band named The Barrymores.