Archive for the 'programming' Category
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
a note from security ppl that session/login cookies that normally delivered via https have to be explisidly marked as “secure” so they _only_ delivered via https. Otherwise bad ppl can hijack them.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Posted in algorithm, algorithms, cs, interviews, programming | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info
Posted in architecture, assembly, cs, for:collidr, hardware, kernel, Linux, memory, OS, programming, x86 | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.
Posted in architecture, cs, for:collidr, programming, system, x86 | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, August 18th, 2008
comparation of SIP client libraries — not much of a comparation but a list of available SIP stacks with short notes
Posted in development, for:collidr, library, opensource, programming, sip, stun, voip | Comments Off | permalink
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
sane notes about storing binary data in Postgres. Basically bytea is ASCII representaion of bynary data wich requires decoding / escaping (read: slow) and large objects a kind of ok, but not trigger-based replication compartable
Posted in binary, database, dba, development, postgresql, programming | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, August 11th, 2008
good discussion about cyclic references. Basically the main point is that if you have a question “how do I implement cyclic fererence?” — then there is something wrong, 99% that it is so because ur understaning of problem domain is wrong.
Posted in database, design, programming, sql | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
ODBC wrapper for sqlite libs, coss platform: binaries are available for win32, os x, linux
Posted in database, development, odbc, programming, sql, sqlite, tools, win32, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, August 4th, 2008
good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.
Posted in development, essay, mac, opensource, programming, software, ui, unix, usability, windows | Comments Off | permalink
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
article explains a few things and post sample code that shows how to instrument x86 boot process
Posted in boot, c, embedded, kernel, Linux, programming | Comments Off | permalink