Tech Breakfast miscellany

Here are my quick notes from today's breakfast (along with the people who brought up the topic, in parens).

We started on UI...

• Actionscript, Blaze DS (Phil)
• GWT 2, Google Closure, Ext JS (Josh)
  

... then HTML 5, and the Ignite SLC event including a rap...

• Mobile App Dev RAP BATTLE (Trent)

... and security, how we in tech tend to be lazy when it comes to security...

• Web Security: A Big Case of ...OOPS... (Trent)

... so maybe these books will help us with the issues...

• Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (Dan)
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Trent)
  

... and luckily we have new tools for managing authorization...

• OAuth (Trent)
  
• Gmail Becomes an App Platform: Google Adds OAuth to IMAP

... and maybe some verifiable anonymity?

• Bending the Identity Spectrum: Verifiable Anonymity at RSA
• pseud.ony.ms (Trent)

We discussed relationships, and tinychat.com and chatroulette.com came up.

Other... miscellany:

• Silicon Snake-Oil by Clifford Stoll (Dan)
• Archer Farm in Logan (... a historical farm here locally? Maybe someone can elaborate in the comments.)
  
• "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." -- Napoleon Bonaparte (Phil)
  
• Fear the Boom and Bust, a rap battle between economists Keynes and Hayek (Trent)