There comes a time in a project's life cycle, especially an API, when a bunch of cruft builds up around it. The more poorly directed development is, the quicker this happens (pretty much it's happening immediately, also don't be upset if your project has cruft to it, it happens to pretty much everyone). The more developers there are, the more cruft there is. It's all about predicting the future, and programmers think they can. They are so clever they know exactly what their scope document says, [...]
ldipd worker model + protocol ============================= ABSTRACT Transport is separate from the master <-> worker relationship. By default, ldipd will attempt to communicate via SSH with a worker node, to establish / start up worker processes. One could easily use xinetd/inetd, rsh, or whatever else, the processes would just be started by it's respective transport provider. Encryption is the responsibility of the transport, LDIP does not encrypt any data it sends over the wire. perl [...]
In an attempt to make my private life more private (especially while at work), I set out to find a good way to encrypt my IM traffic. My options: OTR - Off the record (encryption built into IM clients) Pros: OTR is encryption for IM conversations :D Cons: Not everyone has OTR, OTR implementations are different between clients, You can still sniff who the traffic was going to / coming from. naim - shell / ncurses based IM client Pros: I can SSH to a box, and use this client. Cons: .. it's a console IM client. [...]
I feel like my blog for the past month or so has been all about me whining about my laptop. That sucks. I'd like to say some nifty things about what I'm working on.. a quick status for SiTM (mg2.v4), and just an overall statement on the health of all things mg2: SiTM, Social Networking 2.0 or mg2.v4 is a pretty ambitious project and lately I've been concentrating on hacking for work purposes. This has left SiTM in a near-stalled position, though it's bad to look at it like [...]
So when yapc announced that there was an official tag, i realized how absolutely nifty it was to be able to assign a unique string to an entity, so I added support for tagging to bN .. of coruse it's AJAXy .. and hits a lot of the birds i was wanting.. my "technical debt" if you will.. with a rather large stone. I fitted it in right here into the rin theme which doesn't look ok at all in IE.. so .. if you use IE. im sorry. Plus it's not in anything but the main page right now. [...]