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"I recently had the privilege to supply the challenge for the second ever Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. I thought it pretty cool that the challenge provoked 40+ "newbies" to submit responses. As one might expect, there was some rough Ruby, but very few butcherings of the language.

In the spirit of the code review, I tried to provide constructive feedback to all participants. Following is a summary of some common suggestions that I had to offer…"

Contains an interesting example of how tests could have prevented some problems…

After a few API calls and some code and graphics work, I’ve got a map showing the colors of the physical-cultural landscape around Harvard Square. This is not simply a map of the colors on the ground, which you can get from an aerial photo or systematic documentation like Google Street View, but rather a map of the colors that people on the ground are looking at.

"A fascinating dialogue is developing between psychologists and security engineers…

…This page provides links to a number of key papers, workshops, the home pages of active researchers, relevant books, and other resources. Complementary pages include my security economics resource page and Alessandro Acquisti's privacy economics page."