Why Macaw Web Design Tool for Programmers is Different

Web developers are always looking for new tools to make it easier to complete the project at hand on time for the customer.  The creators of the web design Mccaw is stating that this tool can streamline Web production into on single app.




Calling itself “the code-savvy Web design tool,” Macaw creators Tom Giannattasio and Adam Christ say the software is designed to push HTML as the “standard deliverable at every stage of the process – from conception to deployment.”

The tool was created as an experiment about a year ago to “solve the gap between design tools and the browser.” The two did so by creating an application which enables a fluid design process but also helps developers get the exact code they need. With Macaw, Giannattasio and Christ say the software can speed the production process for both Web designers and developers, easing collaborations.

In the sneak peek video, Giannattasio and Christ walk users through creating a simple blog page with Macaw. Users can design a blog page much like one would ordinarily create in Photoshop or Illustrator. During the process, users can make various design decisions, such as keeping the background image fixed or leaving a logo absolute positioned. Users can also define how things should function using the tool panel on the app.


Once the site is laid out exactly as envisioned, all the user has to do is assign names to each element, much like developers give ID’s and classes to HTML codes. Finally, the finish product can be exported the site as HTML and CSS files. Macaw does all the work of creating a clean HTML markup, consolidating CSS codes, and organization elements in a way that’s readable and identifiable.



The Macaw creators say the tool is intended to help find the balance between simplicity and speed when it comes to Web development. Macaw features a fluid canvas – an added bonus for responsive Web design – that allows for better use of typography options and increased user interactivity.

The features don’t stop there. “We have some intuitive features that have never been seen before in a design tool,” the duo teases. “We’re hopeful people will say to themselves ‘Why hasn’t anyone done it this way before?’”
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/10/12/macaw-web-design-tool-programmers-hits-kickstarter/

Evidently Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook Page Can Be Hacked

Recent news of today in the Washington Post reveals what happened in the Facebook world by an unemployed web developer.

I guess we better watch those web developers. Maybe Zuckerburg will hire this guy since he knows how to hack his Facebook page.



An unemployed Palestinian developer named Khalil Shreateh tried several times to report a bug to Facebook’s security team. When no one got back to him, he took the (dubiously) logical next step: exploited the bug to leave a public comment on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.

“First sorry for breaking your privacy and post to your wall,” an apparent screenshot of the hack reads. “I has [sic] no other choice to make after all the reports i sent to Facebook team.”

The break-in, detailed on Shreateh’s blog (and in several agitated posts from Facebook developers on Hacker News), has been more than a little embarrassing for Facebook.

But it’s not exactly newsworthy that Shreateh found a bug — that happens all the time. In fact, Facebook runs a program that encourages white hat hackers to find and report bugs in Facebook infrastructure in exchange for a cash reward. What is unusual is that Facebook didn’t respond to Shreateh’s initial reports about the bug, and that Shreateh then exploited it in violation of Facebook’s policies for white hat hackers.

“The more important issue here is with how the bug was demonstrated using the accounts of real people without their permission,” insisted Matt Jones, a Facebook software engineer, on the forum Hacker News. “Exploiting bugs to impact real users is not acceptable behavior for a white hat.”

So why didn’t Facebook respond right away to Shreateh’s reports? Judging by the e-mail threads with Facebook’s security team that Shreateh posted on his blog, it looks like his bug was lost — iterally — in translation. Shreateh’s English is a little shaky, and the Facebook developer he corresponded with doesn’t seem to understand the report:

Rhe vulnerability allow’s facebook users to share posts to non friends facebook users , i made a post to sarah.goodin timeline and i got success post … of course you may cant see the link because sarah’s timeline friends posts shares only with her friends , you need to be a friend of her to see that post or you can use your own authority .

“I am sorry this is not a bug,” a Facebook employee reportedly fired back.
On Hacker News, Jones explains that they often get reports from “people whose English isn’t great,” and that usually “it’s something we work with just fine.” According to Facebook’s own reports, the company relies heavily on international white hat hackers to keep its system secure — of the 329 legitimate bugs reported by white hats in the past two years, more than 260 came from outside the U.S.

The network joins several other tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, PayPal and Mozilla, that pay bounties to white hat hackers and rely on them to help keep systems secure.
Shreateh reports he will not, however, receive a bounty for his work — per an e-mail from Facebook, he violated the terms of the program when he hacked Zuckerberg’s account. That has enraged some in the security community, who argue Shreateh exposed an important vulnerability in good faith, using the only means available. The bug has since been fixed, according to Jones’s Hacker News post.
“I can talk hours and hours about facebook security team and their secure style, that may take them down by hackers, that mean iam [sic] not a bad hacker and i never been,” Shreateh posted on his Facebook Sunday night. His current Facebook avatar is a photo of Edward Snowden. “You should know that iam not a hacker.”
 https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1773196631461301668#editor/target=post;postID=7059459557628954228

A Web Developer Finds a Big Security Leak With a Top Web Browser

The very popular Google Chrome does not provide the password protection that is needed for your security. Sure it's great that when using Chrome they save your password so when you choose to visit a social media site you do not have to type password again. This service for users comes with security problems.
The security problem is that when another person uses your computer they have access to all of your saved passwords. On August 7th Elliot Kember,a web developer, reported the security problem in a blog post.

To understand how easily it is for anyone can get your passwords in chrome then just follow these directions.

Copy and paste "chrome://settings/passwords" into Chrome and hit "Enter," to see Chrome's page for managing passwords. This window will pop up:

 

   You should never allow anyone that you do not trust to have access to your computer. We all haveinformation that we want guarded from others.  Being informed  is your saving grace.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/google-chrome-security_n_3719233.htm

Would You Like to Know Who Has Been Named One the Top Bloggers in the U.S.?

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UW professor and author Deborah Blum was named one of the best bloggers in the country by a Time magazine technology writer.

Her blog address on the internet is" www.deborahblum.com".  If you are a blogger then you definitely will learn from just reading her posts.

Blum's blog, Elemental, was listed by Harry McCracken, a Time magazine editor at large, as one of the "25 best bloggers, 2013 edition."

Blum is a professor in the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer.

McCracken writes: "'Macabre' is not an adjective that applies to many blogs of any sort, let alone ones by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalists. In the case of Deborah Blum’s Elemental, one of Wired‘s science blogs, it fits — because her primary subject is poison, and most often poison that’s intentionally administered in the hopes of killing someone. But Elemental is informative and fascinating as well as a tad unsettling. Blum’s recent topics include the possibility that Yasser Arafat was murdered through radiation, the world’s dumbest poisoners and the death of 23 children in India who ate pesticide-laced food at school. She’s also written five books about poison, with another in the works."

Investigating Science One Story AT A Time is the theme of her blog. Her posts are very interesting and current.

Don’t miss Deborah’s #1 Amazon Kindle best-selling single, Angel Killer, a true story of a cannibal killer who stalked New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. Published by The Atavist, this is a tale of a killer who knew how to stay invisible, a detective who wouldn’t give up, and a trial that shocked the country. 

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/university/uw-prof-deborah-blum-named-a-top-blogger/article_7c7105da-fdf5-11e2-ac90-0019bb2963f4.html