Topics on my particular interests.
An associate and I have been using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), with the Off The Record (OTR) plug-in, to securely collaborate on Project X. Although OTR worked, there were times that it didn’t work very well… longer messages got errors instead of being transmitted properly, and some days it didn’t seem to want to work at …
We’ll get that Dick Tracy watch down to a usable size sooner or later. 🙂
E-mail is a wonderful invention. I’ve been using it since 1987 or thereabouts, when one of my uncles gave me a 300 baud acoustic modem that I could plug into my Sinclair QL, and I discovered the local FidoNet node. However, this wonderful innovation started becoming a burden about a decade ago — that’s when …
Last weekend I ported some MD5 calculation code to Lisp, for practice. But once it was done, I wasn’t happy with it, so I’ve been improving it since.
My company is still on contract to help out with a program we developed, which another company bought a few years ago. I’ve spent part of the last two weeks working with that company’s lead programmer, trying to track down a minor but particularly pernicious intermittent bug involving TCP/IP, multithreading, and what seemed to be …
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Another Windows Vista love note. Wake up, Microsoft!
I ran across this post today. It’s more than a year old, but it’s still quite valid. I discovered the joys of unit tests a couple years ago, when I was developing an internal library of C++ classes and functions. Every time I made a change, I would run the test code for the library …
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Over the weekend, I wanted to get in some Lisp practice — especially with macros and debugging — so I decided to port my MD5 calculation code (written in C++) to the language. It has a lot of repetitious code in it that could usefully be handled by macros.
Darn, I missed the free public tasting yesterday.
The hardest thing about remembering something is remembering it long enough to remember it. Okay, that sentence is a little convoluted, but that doesn’t affect it’s accuracy. 🙂 The hardest part about remembering something is keeping it in your head for more than a few seconds in the first place — once you can do …