Archive for the 'programming' Category

Automated HTTPS Cookie Hijacking | fscked.org

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.

The Old New Thing : Tales from the interview: Can you rotate this two-dimensional array?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

for(i=0;i

Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info

CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection : Gustavo Duarte

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

VoIP – SIP and RTP stacks, softphones, user agents, STUN – a comparison

Monday, August 18th, 2008

comparation of SIP client libraries — not much of a comparation but a list of available SIP stacks with short notes

BLOB, iBatis & PostgreSql 8.1 – dBforums [large objects vs bytea]

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

[russian] Как гарантировать наличие атрибута (циклическая зависимость) / Проектирование БД : Форум на SQL.RU | about cyclic references / database design

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.

SQLite ODBC Driver

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

ODBC wrapper for sqlite libs, coss platform: binaries are available for win32, os x, linux

Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability

Monday, August 4th, 2008

good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.

Benchmarking boot latency on x86

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

article explains a few things and post sample code that shows how to instrument x86 boot process