K.T. Ligesh / Ligesh.com archive available
Shortly after hearing that K.T. Ligesh hanged himself, I pulled a mirror copy of his blog anticipating his domain expiring with no one around to renew it and it has. You can find the archive here, from 2007 up until his last post. For those of you who don’t know him, he was the author [...]
Its Almost Always The Code, Not The Server
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to deal with people who had their web site compromised who named their hosting server as the weakest link. 99.99% of the time, if your site is defaced or found to link to on-line Viagra vendors, its your fault, not the hosting provider. Usually, this kind [...]
GCC Easter Eggs – Shorter Enum Storage
This is the first in what will likely be a long series of posts regarding features in GCC that I find to be less than obvious. Technically, an easter egg (in a program) is some sort of functionality that accessed by undocumented and non-obvious means. To the less than guru regarding GCC, a lot of [...]
How To Be A Software Architect
I noticed a rather subjective question on Stack Overflow today, someone wanted to know the ‘best way’ of moving away from being a software developer and in to being a software architect. I was about to reply, but the first answer I saw really said it all: Stop doing anything that might be misconstrued as [...]
SPAM As A Source Of Entropy?
I really want to win the lottery. To do this, I need good random numbers. When I need those numbers, I don’t want to wait forever for something blocking to finally get them to me. I like to ‘pick’ just before buying a ticket .. just like I throw salt over my left shoulder should [...]
The Multi Kernel Has Landed
Anyone working on, conceiving or contemplating a new operating system could spend an hour looking at Barrelfish. According to the SOSP, Barrelfish is, well, really .. a multi kernel. Imagine a traditional monolithic kernel, per core, tied together with the sensibility and reliability of a micro kernel. Yeah, I’m still digesting it myself shortly after [...]
Switching Types Is Difficult
For the last week, I have been going between C and PHP depending on what happens to be in my editor at any given time. At some points, I was switching gears as much as every 30 minutes. I can’t explain how painful that is. Going from a strictly to dynamically typed language is like [...]
I miss programming
For the better part of the last few weeks, I have been working mostly on “general IT” projects that mostly involve service configurations and managing subcontractors. I can’t help but miss my nice, warm and fuzzy type safe callbacks, irrational complaints from my compiler and colleagues from various open source projects. Maybe I’ll be able [...]
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