A bug in an airline reservation system resulted in all female passengers on a Tui flight that select Miss on their booking to be allocated a child's weight of 35kg on the aircraft load sheet instead of the standard weight of 69kg. This error resulted in the pilot calculating takeoff thrust using a weight figure that was 1,200kg lighter than the real weight of the aircraft.
Neil On Software created a handy guide on how to deal with difficult people on software projects. I think the tips on how to address each scenario are applicable for the most part outside of software also.
Want to pass a few hours in the blink of an eye through shear frustration? Well today is your lucky day! :-p This regex crossword was created by Jimb Essler based on a puzzle written by Dan Gulotta for the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt. I've unsuccessfully spent two late nights trying to solve this so far :-)
For fans of the great TV show Halt and Catch Fire, technologist Ashley Blewer created a great course syllabus for the show. The site is split into 15 classes that link to important RFCs, articles, books, and other resources in the history of computer science and the IT industry that inspire the events of the show.
That Computer Scientist published a post that does a great job at explaining Big O Notation as easily as possible - "Big O Notation is a mathematical notation used to classify algorithms according to how their run time or space requirements grow as the input size grows."
Teo Selenius from appsecmonkey.com published a very extensive and useful list of web security issues to check and protect against, covering front-end, server-side, infrastructure, and monitoring.
Web Savvy Marketing posted a very useful checklist of SEO items to do when moving or upgrading your website, covering content creation, technical SEO review, and go live checks.
Omatsuri is an extremely handy collection of web development & design tools, which such as a gradient generator, a lorum ipsum generator, and a page divider generator.
