Category Archives: programming

the six dumbest ideas in computer security

Slashdot recently posted a link to this excellent article about the dumbest ideas in computer security. If you can avoid falling into the trap of the first three, you’re among the few true computer security elite. Definitely worth a read if you’re into anything related to computers and security, be it programming or network security. [...]

more coding humour

Some more coding humour today. Yeah, I know it’s the weekend, but you never stop being a geek do you? Anyway, the Daily WTF is always could for a geeky chuckle as it present bits and pieces of sourcecode which are just plain laughable, and sometimes so poorly written it would brings tears to your [...]

coder humour

The humourous IRC quotes found on bash.org is always pretty geeky, it’s IRC remember, but this one is probably one of the best geeky programmer jokes I’ve seen so far: Anonymous-san: okay so there’s these two strings, right Anonymous-san: They walk into a bar Anonymous-san: The first string says Anonymous-san: Hello, I’d like a rum [...]

funny pieces of code

It doesn’t get a lot geekier than this, but the Daily WTF posts pieces of programming code daily so badly written it makes you pee your pants laughing! Well, you have to be into programming to actually achieve the peeing thing, and euhm, maybe have like a really really full bladder as well, cause I [...]

sex bots

This is probably gonna get me some non related hits but hey, wtf, it’s a fun idea. Check out the sex bots at www.hackaday.com. Don’t expect anything raunchy of course, I mean, it’s all very clean and binary monkey business, but the idea, now that is cool. I wonder what the result of this evolutionary [...]

filesharing in 15 lines

Just read this on slashdot today… TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their [...]

best software essays of 2004

Lets talk shop. Yeah, computers’n’shit, programming, coding, web design, geeky stuff. In fact, I won’t do much of the talking, I’ll leave that to some guys that have written some great articles on software development, which I’ve been reading just a few of which arose my interest right away, and I’ll be getting back to [...]