http://www.dudeforce.net/ Covering Java and .Net software development, FreeBSD and other fun nerdy stuff. On a technical documentation mission. en-us 2008-12-06T07:59:42-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/12/erlang_im_divin_1.html I've recently become interested in learning Erlang, it's a functional language, high performance and much different than your average C based languages. That being said, it's going to be a steeper learning curve for me.... erlang 0xFF3300 2008-12-06T07:59:42-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/03/new_audi_godfat.html I found the new Audi Superbowl commercial on WikiRides amusing: Audi_R8_Truth_in_The_Godfather_-_Super_Bowl_2008... video 0xFF3300 2008-03-11T06:14:44-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/02/dark_web_design_1.html I have an appreciation for darker web designs, for one it's easier on the eyes. Vandelay creates an article reviewing some of the better ones: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/dark/... design 0xFF3300 2008-02-26T06:27:34-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/02/chyrp_installed.html Just installed Chyrp (http://chyrp.net). It's simple, minimal and uses plugins called feathers.... webapps 0xFF3300 2008-02-04T23:51:39-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/01/_net_framework.html An interesting move by Microsoft, the .NET Framework Library has been made open source. Here are the libraries available: * .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).... .net 0xFF3300 2008-01-17T08:00:11-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2008/01/codeigniter.html I haven't been this excited about a framework since Groovy. CodeIgniter is a rails-like php framework that allows for rapid development using a REST Model-View-Controller, comes with a basic scaffolding, an assort of core classes and excellent documentation. Although many... framework 0xFF3300 2008-01-08T19:24:49-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/12/the_future.html The future is already here.... tech 0xFF3300 2007-12-29T12:08:23-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/12/greasemonkey_da.html I just love Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox. I happened to stumble upon this basic script to 'Darken' a web page, it's simple but a start. Now I'll make some tweaks to invert colors.... javascript 0xFF3300 2007-12-27T22:01:07-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/12/delicious_block.html I've built more than one web application with del.icio.us integration, now it appears they (yahoo) are blocking certain IP ranges:... 0xFF3300 2007-12-24T16:13:00-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/12/groovy_or_jruby.html As for myself, I can't speak for JRuby, as I've only had experiences with Groovy. And I have nothing but good things to say about Groovy. It's easy to setup, implement and deploy and has much faster performance than just... language 0xFF3300 2007-12-24T10:19:42-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/12/amazon_release.html Amazon has released public AMIs for use with the EC2 computing service. And there are quite a few tutorials cropping up around the web, regarding rolling your own AMI image.... grid computing 0xFF3300 2007-12-24T10:04:47-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2007/11/yes_folks.html I'm still here using Movable Type, Version 3.01D to be exact. That may be changing very soon. I set up a blog on wordpress.com, but it's entirely too limiting. It's either going to be a local wordpress installation or else... this blog 0xFF3300 2007-11-29T19:12:04-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2005/10/monofreebsd_bsd.html This is awesome. The BSD# Project is devoted to porting and maintaining the Mono .NET framework for FreeBSD. The Mono framework consists of not only the Mono Runtime environment and compiler but the XSP web server for handling ASP.NET applications,... mono 0xFF3300 2005-10-15T16:04:13-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2005/06/whois_spam.html Looks like whois is now even prone to spam. Look at what google.com returns: me@server$ whois google.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to... suck 0xFF3300 2005-06-20T13:13:30-08:00 http://www.dudeforce.net/archives/2005/06/wordpress_15_sq.html The most critical vulnerability in the 1.5 release of wordpress is an SQL-Injection in `wp-trackback.php'. It's not easily exploitable because you do not get a result when you inject a valid query but it's possible to bruteforce values in the... this blog 0xFF3300 2005-06-01T07:21:37-08:00