Category: Programming

I tend to loathe people using terms like ‘simple’ and ‘advanced’ when used to describe software products, because it assumes a level of context in which you have

God I hate maven. I’m not the only one who feels this way, either. Let me count the ways. The syntax is verbose, obfuscated and generally horrible. It’s

So I get this email the other day from my ISP From - Tue Jan 08 05:17:43 2013 X-Account-Key: account10 X-UIDL: 1248218041.44 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path:

So one of the things I’ve been working on is a physical direct-mail campaign management system, using addresses sourced from various mailing list databases, and, due to the

Over time I end up writing a lot of little programs and scripts just to get through a particular use-case. Here’s one of them. So there’s this thing

So I’ve been running a Secure shell honeypot for about a year or so, so might as well open up the log files and see what people have

So XML exists, and you probably have to deal with it occasionally. It’s a bit more complex than a CSV or a fixed-width file, so an enormous number

The SDLC is the Software Development Lifecycle. It defines the various states that a piece of software goes through before you, the end user, get your grubby mitts

I have a bit of time to burn, so lets talk about logging.

So here we are in 2013, and ony of my many resolutions is to update this blog at least once a week, so here’s my attempt at making