MARCH 7, 2006
Some days clients and developers do not speak the same language. It is not that it is the clients fault or the developers fault but they seem to be thinking on two different levels...
Some days clients and developers do not speak the same language. It is not that it is the clients fault or the developers fault but they seem to be thinking on two different levels...
My wife and I are addicted to Sudoku. It's the latest game that everyone is playing nowadays. We've played on numerous sudoku programs, paper, palm and have found the features we like the most. There was one thing missing with all of them... you play by yourself...
Ronnie has upgraded his workstation to the Power Mac G5. The machine is speedy with 1.5GB of RAM, Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5, and much more. The machine is huge, the liquid cooling is pretty cool as well, since the fans go in slow motion, compared to real computer fans. Overall, nice computer...
I thought it would be funny to place this under the programming tools section, since we all know caffeine is a programmers life blood. A colleague sent me a link to a blog entry named Death by Caffeine which basically tells you how many cans of Mountain Dew, RedBull, Coke, Coffee and so on would actually kill...
I'm sad to say that most programmers still don't give enough attention to security related topics. Rustybrick is concerned with security, and this is a glimpse at our practices and patterns that minimize database security risks, otherwise known as "tainting SQL" or "SQL insertion attacks." Read on to see.
We got a new t1 in the office from speakeasy. The router they use is the 2622. I got it unlocked so I can test thing here and prep the office for voip without having to put a 2nd Ethernet port in every office. This 2622 is an amazing piece of work. The technology it uses is so ancient...
It was a long wait, but the
This is so funny, at least for me, since we work with this type of stuff. Found at ramapo.edu.
I'm going to develop an open source web meeting suite. The client will be written in Java and will support both the visual and audio aspects of meetings. This will be similar to how WebEx works...
We switched before getting
About two weeks ago my T1 line went down in the office, not a big deal since we have a Cable line as well. But our business cable provider does not offer port 80 traffic, so our client were unable to view the test server for a day, which was an inconvenience...
I was invited to a presentation of the
Jef Raskin who helped initiate the Human User Interface died from Cancer on Saturday. He was 61. He was one of my computer heros. Thanks for giving us the Macintosh.
I've used Java for almost as long as I've been doing PHP development. Recently, I've been writing a really advanced Java Application that uses all the latest technologies: Swing, Web Services (via GLUE), Java Web Start (JWS) and much much more. It is fun slow work that is very cool...
Today, I read an article entitled, "
To show you how geeky we are, or I am, I purchased an Ambient Orb at ThinkGeek.com and set it to glow different colors based on how well the programmers are doing at RustyBrick. So basically, if they are doing well, it might pulse a nice green or blue...
As most people know, there are two ways to do something:
It seemed that I still had issues with the DNS. So I decided to track it down to the source... BIND. For some reason, BIND was taking too long to query addresses not in my DNS server. So all I did was enable the following configuration settings in the named.conf file: