Grab bag: Humility, utopia, and self control

Usability and Experience Study – Wikipedia Usability Initiative There’s nothing more humbling than watching actual end users struggle with your software. (tags: wikipedia usability productmanagement) The Kingdom of the Happy Land (Mountain Xpress News) Making a stronger connection between Krazy Kat (“There is a heppy land fur, fur, awaaa”) and the history of African American [...]

The Forrester application survey: 62% hacked through apps

Last week I indulged in a little live tweeting of a webinar my firm, Veracode, did with Chanxi Wang of Forrester, following up on our recent announcement of an independent survey in which 62% of the respondents reported being breached through at least one application vulnerability in 2008. I’ve reposted the substance of my tweets [...]