You’re launching the first version of your web application. You’re pre-revenue. Your every waking moment is consumed with the backlog of product enhancements you believe will help your app break through. And you’re about to land on the top of Reddit because of a security flaw.

We’re software security people. Our industry is built around breaking software. People like us are the ones putting people like you on the top of Reddit. People like you are the weak, and people like us are the tyranny of evil men.

You’re listening to us because you’ve finally given up trying to control the security of your application. Everything else you’ve tried has failed. The advice the “security industry” has given you has had negligible business value, because you’re not a Fortune-500, and you aren’t shipping shrink-wrap to 1,000 enterprises. And the failure of that advice is partly our fault. This is our response.

Read the advice we’re giving here. See how you’re doing. Honestly, are you on top of these issues? Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem.

BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices.

A companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media.

"The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames." Looks fantastic, but $50. Damn, that isn't cheap.

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Very much an alpha product at the moment.

"PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We're trying to make iPhone app development easy and open. For many applications a web application is the way to but in Safari you don't get access to the native iPhone APIs, and the that's the problem we're trying to solve."