I’ve just released a new version of LogMiner, my Apache/IIS log analysis package. This release features the following changes: the log parser has been fixed to deal correctly with negative time zones in logs the Navigation graph has been made clearer by ignoring query strings the “Response codes” report lets you find all the requests …
Category: IT & Technology
(White) Space, the final frontier
In this second post about my preferred coding style, I’ll talk about white space. White space is very important to improve readability, not only when dealing with code. For instance, when you write an email you usually break it up in several paragraphs, instead of writing a single chunk of code (or if you don’t, …
Zen and the Art of Coding
Writing software is an art: some say it’s a black art (usually right after Word decided to crash taking their last two hours of work to hell ;-)). Someone even considers it a magic art, which reminds of an Arthur Clark quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Like other arts, it has …
WEP is dead
WEP has been deprecated as a way to protect a wireless network a long ago, yet I still see a lot of people (and even worse, of business places) that leave their network wide open or use a weak WEP encription. Recently a new, faster way to crack WEP has been discovered: The Register interviewed …
Respect, ever heard of it?
In the past 10 years or so, I’ve wrote several software applications in my spare time. Some of them I’ve released as freeware/open source/giftware: they’re mostly applications I wrote because I needed them and I felt that other might find them useful too. It also happened that I developed other pieces of software with a …