appstore and cryptography

With the onset of copy/paste in the 3.0 version of the Iphone OS i figured i would write some software providing a facile way of encrypting text with a password for sending via sms , email and whatnot, it is called TXTcrypt after a long struggle it is now both on the appstore and as …

iphone and flash

Ok so i have to quote and comment on the following from informationweek : ^ Jobs’ statements are sure to disappoint Web developers, many of whom are familiar with Flash development I am a web developer and i am not disappointed at all by his statement which for the record was straight on and amounted to …

On MS VC++ 2005 reinventing the wheel

It comes as no surprise too , microsoft’s paradigm for adding new features is reinventing the wheel , and they overengineer it just to the point where it is inevitable to break , and impossible to determine why it did so. Without further adieu let me present MicroSoft Visual C++ 2005 and it’s brand new …

On high-tech thrillers and story telling

I have finished going trough my third Dan Brown novel , i was curious about these “high-tech thrillers” he is supposed to write , and what can i say , they are not plain , prety documented and mostly entertaining , but i am not sure Dan Brown is a writer , or at best …

The quirks and taboo’s of modern english

It is some time now since english has became my secondary language given my computer interests (kids, in the past there were only english versions of operating systems) , and technical things like RFC’s are better understood in their original language , still every now and then i can not feel entertained or puzzled by …

European Union is being corrupted

A tyrannical ruler of the medieval lands here once said “If you do not want me , well i do want you” when he was opposed to becoming a king , and he had his ways to enforce his saying and overcome all his opposer’s. Well for the sake of freedom of the european union …

Corporate programmers get licence to hack

Xtreme Programming or XP for short are “agile” programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day. They relate closely to opensource methodologies and are essentially a license to hack for the oppressed corporate developers so i can easily understand their joy and sympathize with these …