I wrote up a quick overview of some of the things with strong naming assemblies that I found interesting (here). Includes a quick summary of tamper proofing, strict versioning, using it, and verifying library callers. Looks like a reasonably neat system that isn’t perfect but can’t be given the untrusted environment it runs in.

Just thought I would post a link to Eric Raymond’s “Art of Unix Programming” book. It’s a pretty comprehensive document on how Unix development works. Joel (Of Joel on Software) wrote a nice comparison of the Unix way of doing things with the Windows way (here). It was refreshing reasonable comments and understanding that the ...

At work we’ve been discussing building a licensing system for our new projects written in .NET. It seems that .NET provides a lot of libraries that will really help the process along. I built a really simple system for single user environments for fun and thought others might find it useful. It’s fairly well documented ...

Last night Anji suprised we with a terrific roast beef dinner when I got home. After we finished eating, Ryan (Anji’s brother) showed up to baby sit Kailey while Anji took me to see Love Actually. The movie was really good although a bit long and we found ourselves constantly looking at our watches and ...

I’ve been a long time Debian / Slack fan. I love Debians apt repositories and the simplicity and speed of Slack but lately I’ve found myself getting more and more impatient with my computer. I don’t want to fiddle any more, I just want it to work. Unfortunately Debian requires a bit more hands-on (for ...