Category: Programming

An unexpected peril of mixing C and C++

The other day at work we ran into a nasty little bug that was quite tricky and chewed up quite a few hours of a few people's time. So I thought that as a service to you, my loyal reader, I would post about it and warn you of this...

Programming

Intro to SCTP

A nice IBM developerWorks article that introduces the basic features of SCTP, such as multi-homing and multi-streaming, and shows you sample C code for a simple SCTP daytime client and server, using the Linux Kernel SCTP Project...

Programming

Intro to SLP

SLP (Service Location Protocol) is a network service discovery protocol, in the same vein as Bonjour, ZeroConf, UPnP, etc. IBM developerWorks has a nice article which covers the basics of SLP and shows some example programs using...

Programming

Yahoo! UI and Design Patterns Released

Jeremy points out a good quote from WeBreakStuff. Yahoo! keeps showing the world how much they get web 2.0. This time, they've done the unexpected and opened the sources to the UI library (that includes visual effects, connection...

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YME Jabber Control

I've made my Jabber Control plugin for the Yahoo! Music Engine available for download. This plugin allows the Yahoo! Music Engine to connect via Jabber (XMPP) protocol and listen for remote control events. Screenshots...

Programming

Autogen

AutoGen is an interesting code generation tool that I just stumbled upon. What can you do with it? Well, let's say that we have a simple specification for what an Employee class might look like: autogen definitions employee;...

MacProgramming

Building tsocks on Mac OS X

I recently told you about a cool piece of software called tsocks which allows non-SOCKS-aware applications to use SOCKS by using LD_PRELOAD to intercept their socket calls and route them through a SOCKS server. Installing on...