The DigiStump ATTiny85 board is a really attractive bit of hardware. It’s cheap, it can be accessed via the on-board USB connector, and while it hasn’t got the advanced hardware features of its bigger kin, there are a lot of things you can do with its small number of ports, memory and features. I’ve got a list, in […]
Category: Random maniacal ravings
Gnome Evolution is an Abomination and gnome-keyring should die in a fire!
Really. Between Evolution’s penchant for creating non-deletable – and defective – account associations and gnome-keyring’s useless pop-up dialogs, the whole thing almost makes Microsoft Windows seem attractive. Then again, gnome is, by and large, a slavish attempt to imitate many of Windows’ more obnoxious features. Like the Windows Registry. Honestly. People have been complaining about this stuff for […]
Why Do-it-Yourself Java Security is a BAD THING
One of my greatest peeves in working with Java in the Enterprise is the fact that everyone+dog seems to think they can do a better job on application security than the Java architects. OK, so there’s some really awful stuff that’s part of the Java standards, but nevertheless, rolling your own security is still a BAD THING. Here’s […]
Why Software Projects Should Not Depend on an IDE
disclaimer: I’m about to show my age. My first “IDE” was an IBM 029 keypunch machine. I keyed programs in FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembler and PL/1. When I messed up, I threw away the defective cards and punched new ones. After waiting in line for a free keypunch machine. Over the years, things got better. I graduated to online […]