April 15, 2014
Beating Caesar’s Cipher with Wheel-of-Fortune
While on vacation my wife showed me a children’s riddle book. When she was young her family went crazy for a few days trying to solve the riddle before giving up. The book contains a cipher at the end which can be used to validate your solution and finish the story. I knew it would be trivial to brute-force, but I wanted to demonstrate a statistical attack with nothing more than Wheel-of-Fortune’s free letters – R,S,T,L,N,E. more...
February 19, 2013
Linux RAID with mdadm - Do's and Dont's
I've been keeping my personal data safe with linux software raids for almost a decade. I've even convinced many friends to do the same. Lost data is so frustrating... actually, loosing data was one of the forces that made me commit to abandon M$ windowz and become a daily linux user. more...
July 24, 2012
Statamic SASS Plugin
Statamic Lets you use SASS/SCSS in your templates. more...
July 20, 2012
Switch to Statamic
When I first lauched my website over a year ago I wrote a simple PHP script that converted markdown files into page routes. However, I abandond it for wordpress because I had no time to add all the features I needed.
Then just a few weeks ago, some friends of mine released a robust flat-file CMS. It turns out it has all the features of my custom PHP script, plus all the features I needed and more.
So yes I’m a Statamic fan!
May 21, 2011
Simple TCP Messages with NetSocket
Update: The NetSocket library has been tested in mono. Now you can use it to communicate between Windows, OS X and Linux.
Back in the days before .Net it was easy to add network messaging with the Winsock Control. Unfortunately .Net does not include an out-of-the box messaging API. Thankfully it has everything you need to make one. more...