Nice Tutorial on Ajax and what it is good for. Interesting read.
Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?
– Suramya
October 31, 2005
October 27, 2005
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Really good article introducing Artificial Intelligence to the general public.
MacDevCenter.com: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
October 25, 2005
Added WebForum to gWiFi.net
Added a new webforum to the gWiFi.net site to allow visitors to post their feedback and suggest new Hot Spots for inclusion in the Database.
Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
Thanks,
Suramya
October 16, 2005
Automating Diagnostic Tests with Ant
Interesting article that explains how to Diagnostic Tests with Ant
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Excerpt from the article:
Suppose you have developed your Java application and distributed it to your users. If all goes well, the application just works on every computer. But if there’s a problem, you have to begin troubleshooting. Users will call for all sorts of installation problems, expecting you to fix them. Moreover, the same problems will often come back: the wrong version of Java, a deleted file, too-restrictive file permissions, etc. Most of these problems can be solved by creating a checklist. However, instead of wasting time asking new users the same questions on the checklist over and over, you can create a diagnostic test that goes through the checklist, providing users with the information they need to solve the problem. If users can’t solve the problem themselves, they can show you a clear checklist, so you can take a look at what’s going wrong without asking a bunch of questions first.
– Suramya
October 11, 2005
Protecting Files at Home Using Encrypted Containers
This is an awesome article on how to create Encrypted Containers that makes it easy to create encrypted backup locations that can copied to other systems without hassle and are simple to use.
September 27, 2005
A Lesson in Encryption
A good trilogy of articles by Peter van der Linden on encryption.
Part 1, describes how public key encryption works and where to get the GnuPG encryption software. Part 2 walks through some examples of file encryption/decryption, and Part 3 explains how to send and read encrypted e-mail
Lesson in Encryption, Part 1
Lesson in Encryption, Part 2
Lesson in Encryption, Part 3
– Suramya
September 22, 2005
Linux LDAP authentication tutorial
Tutorial on how to setup LDAP on Linux. Looks interesting, might try it out on my spare machine when I go home next week.
Article Link: Linux LDAP authentication
– Suramya
September 21, 2005
How to Investigate Intermittent Problems
A really really good post by James Bach on how to investigate Intermittent Problems. Any person who does product testing should read this. Even developers/programmers need to read this as this will make it easier to find and fix bugs.
Brief extract from this post:
Some Principles of Intermittent Problems:
- Be comforted: the cause is probably not evil spirits.
- If it happened once, it will probably happen again
- If a bug goes away without being fixed, it probably didn’t go away for good.
- Be wary of any fix made to an intermittent bug. By definition, a fixed bug and an unfixed intermittent bug are indistinguishable over some period of time and/or input space.
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Some General Suggestions for Investigating Intermittent Problems:
- Recheck your most basic assumptions: are you using the computer you think you are using? are you testing what you think you are testing? are you observing what you think you are observing?
- Eyewitness reports leave out a lot of potentially vital information. So listen, but DO NOT BECOME ATTACHED to the claims people make.
- If someone tells you what the problem can’t possibly be, consider putting extra attention into those possibilities.
Original Post:
How to Investigate Intermittent Problems
– Suramya
September 20, 2005
thebroken dot organization
Found this interesting site yesterday while surfing the web, it is ‘computer show’ that is a bit different than the average computer show. It goes a bit into the gray area and talks about hacking, social engineering, making exploding laptops etc. Not very technical but interesting anyways.
So far they have released three episodes but more are on the way…
Check it out:
thebroken dot organization
– Suramya