Monthly Archives: November 2007

Code Mountain

Posted on 2007-11-28 by wbic16

I came up with an idea this afternoon for a source code visualizer for Enterprise solutions. Basically it would provide a source code cloud built from files and their dependencies. Each cloud would be a logical block (function, if-statement, loop, … Continue reading →

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Dust Bunnies

Posted on 2007-11-26 by wbic16

I exorcised the demons from my laptop over the Thanksgiving break.  Turns out that running an Athlon 64 at 2.0GHz with 3+ years of dust collection is a bad idea.  I had been forced to run everything with the power … Continue reading →

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Airspeed Velocity of an Un-Laden Swallow

Posted on 2007-11-20 by wbic16

European: 24 mph http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ Megan (one of my co-workers) was repeating Monty Python lines this afternoon. Figured I’d dig up a proof of the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow from Google.

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Anti-Viruses

Posted on 2007-11-15 by wbic16

I followed an article today on Warden, the anti-cheating software used by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. which eventually lead me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code. The brief synopsis there got me thinking about the way in which anti-virus software currently works. I’m reasonably convinced … Continue reading →

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Power Corrupts?

Posted on 2007-11-14 by wbic16

Well I finally decided to extract my copy of WordPress and get things rolling tonight. I spent a good number of hours a couple of weekends ago getting software updated on my dedicated server and removing the Plesk admin interface … Continue reading →

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