The best-laid plans are in my other pants
Update 2010-12-17: Those of you who saw this post appear and then vanish were not seeing things. The Mono community identified the contents of this blog post as a serious security vulnerability in Moonlight that, through violation of the type system, allows the CoreCLR security layer to be bypassed. Attackers could potentially run arbitrary code…
Well, if you’ve been waiting for some kind of stable release of OpenVP for Banshee, you will love this. OpenVP is part of the Banshee Community Extensions 1.7.4 release! Go get it, and be sure to file any bugs you come across.
I’ve already sent out a message to those I contact frequently, but for the rest of you, my email address has changed from cdhowie@gmail.com to me@chrishowie.com. I have decided to migrate away from Gmail for a variety of reasons. I figured I’d use my domain so that I have flexibility in my provider choice. For…
Or at least as they are currently implemented. (Rambling rant alert!) Almost every IM client on the planet has the concept of a group. You create a group, give it a name, and populate it with your contacts. At first glance, this is useful. Having used IM clients since the latter years of AIM’s domination,…
I am migrating to a new OpenPGP key. If this concerns you, or if you are interested, please read my key transition statement and take appropriate action. Please verify that the transition is signed by both my old and new keys.
At work, we use Subversion for source control. This is quite the popular VCS, but I’ve grown accustomed to (and much prefer) Git. Don’t get me wrong, SVN has its advantages, but since using Git my workflow has changed quite radically, and it’s difficult to revert to the rather inflexible and tedious SVN workflow. Anyway,…
Update 2010-02-08: Jonathan Pryor has merged many of my extension methods into Cadenza. I’d strongly suggest checking it out. It’s no secret to my friends that I love to program… even more so as I’ve been developing a FarmVille client in C# and having them test it. (As much as you might hate FarmVille, you…
One of the nice things that .NET 3.5 gives us is LINQ, which gives new life to the often-neglected IEnumerable generic interface. Sequence processing is now a first-class citizen in the C# world, and this is a good thing. However, it can be very tricky to design a usable API around enumerables. Today I present…
I’ve got this idea to code some game servers for a series of cooperative games my brother and I used to play as kids. I get similar ideas all the time… how about a game server for this card game or that board game? The problem I run into is pretty much always exactly the…
I need to get into the habit of blogging more often. I haven’t even been twittering much lately… You’ve probably noticed the visual update to my blog by now. I got tired of the default WordPress theme. I had to tweak this one a bit to get it to behave the way I want, but…