A good friend of mine who is the definition of a ‘Security Expert’ replied to my recent post regarding the use of current encryption technologies. He had this to say about my assertion that PKI cannot prove my identity: PKI-based authentication can prove who you are, to the extent it can prove that the name [...]
Jan 182010
An excerpt of a recent slashdot post: “… I wanted to ask the Slashdot community, what do you think the hold up is (regarding use of encryption)? Are the existing protocols somehow not good enough? Are the protocols fine, but not supported well enough in software? Is it too complicated to manage the various encryption [...]
Jan 112010
Changed hosting environments, hopefully this will be less painful to all :)
My last post reguarding “Deadlocks and other issues with Invoke / BeginInvoke” was something of a rant on the subject of WinForms and multi-threading. I thought I’d post on the useage of the solution that was presented originally on the stackoverflow article. The following defines the interface portion of the class: public class EventHandlerForControl<TEventArgs> where [...]
Nov 232009
Just ran into this post over on devlicio.us and thought it worth a shout-out. Much like the CommandInterpreter I recently added to the library, it allows you to remove all the parsing of arguments from your code and provides command-line help. Here is to hoping that a full-blown version eventually finds it’s way into the [...]
Nov 232009
The answer is simple… only when the profiler tells you to. Optimizations often make code less reliable and often constrain implementations making them less flexible. Good software performance is not created by making lots of micro optimizations throughout your code. A good design from the architectural point of view is the critical key to success [...]
This ‘helpful’ (using this term loosely) post is for those you considering adding multi-threaded code to your application. The intended audience is developers with less than mastery-level (10+ years) multi-threading experience. The first question your up against is: Do I need multi-threading in my application? The answer is an emphatic NO you don’t. If you accept this [...]
I’ve seen many a question on stackoverflow and other places about running a process and capturing it’s output. Using the System.Diagnostics.Process correctly is not easy and most often it’s done wrong. Some common mistakes with System.Diagnostics.Process: Not capturing both output streams (error & output) Not redirecting input can cause applications to hang Not closing redirected [...]
Oct 072009
Let’s face it, using the System.Diagnostics.Process to run a process and capture the output is not as easy as it should be. People often get it wrong without realizing it. Adding to the complexities can be reading both the standard output as well as the standard error stream. To put this to bed once and [...]
Oct 062009
For many years (more than I care to remember) I have continually written code to provide command-line behavior over and over again. On occasion I would get fancy in one project or another and build something sorta-generic; however, every time it came to creating the next command-line tool I started from scratch. Finally I said [...]