As all C, C++ and Perl devotees, I too looked upon Python with apprehension. Python? What? I asked. The very idea of white-spaces being part of syntax gave me jitters and I convulsed with disgust. Why Python? Perl can do it. OOP? Perl has it … errm .. Kind of. After reading numerous articles about […]
VMWare – Simple communication between Host and Guest
Recently I’ve been working on a project which required VMWare as one of the component. As part of this project some sort of communication, albeit simple in nature,was required between the host and the guest machine. Here are two simple commands, one to be run on host and one on the guest, using which you […]
xstress – xk0derz SMTP Stress Testing Tool
xstress is a tool developed by me, that allows users to stress test (their) SMTP Mail servers. The tool is pretty straight forward (and very simple too). It creates multiple connections to the mail server and pumps e-mail traffic on those connection. That’s it. The good thing is that you can configure lots of parameter […]
Good Design or Smart Engineering?
This is one question that haunts (new) software engineers day after day. We learned from the days of BASIC to Java and .NET that goto is an incarnation of devil itself, but we find goto in code written by the so called ‘elite’ programmers. What does this mean? Was all that computer science we learned […]
Apache 2 on Fedora Core 4
Recently while installing Apache 2 web server on a Fedora Core 4 machine, I ran into some very peculiar problems. Apache would compile cleanly, install perfectly but when I would start the web server it would fail complaing about, failed to load shared library (some ldap and others). After much hunting and googling, i found […]
Current URL in FireFox
I required this while creating an extension for Firefox that bookmarked the current URL at some site. After some hacking I found that the Address bar object that displays the current tab’s URL has the id set to ‘urlbar’ Following simple Javascript code accomplishes the task var obj = document.getElementById(“urlbar”); returns the reference of the […]
How to pick a programming language
I happen to read this very interesting article by Tim Daneliuk http://www.tundraware.com/Technology/How-To-Pick-A-Programming-Language/ I really don’t know if it will help anybody pick out the language of their choice, but the article makes a very good reading, specially if you like nerd humour.
C# and .NET will die!
Not yet, but slowly! They may rise to a certain level before they die, but they will! Clarification Before I continue let me clarify that this post is not about whether C# or .NET is a good technology or not; .NET might be very good concept coming out of Microsoft’s closet, but again popularity and […]
Ruby – *The* programming language
I Happen to stumble upon Ruby lately, and this is one heck of a cool language! You may say! Oh! no… I don’t need another language now! Probably most of us(the coder specie) have spent years on our favourite language(or not so favourite language?). And would certainly not like to plunge into yet another language. […]