I recently stumbled on a Java/.Net open source project called BouncyCastle when I was running into issues using Microsoft’s implementations of RSA in the .Net Framework. I thought to myself, “Open source to the rescue again!”, Boy was I wrong. Let me go on records as saying it’s a good project and has a ton
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On Friday a blog post from Joel Spolsky hit Slashdot. This post from Joel was a good read and centered around using programmers who, “Just get the job done”, or as Joel referred to them as Duct Tape Programmers. The gist of the post centered around not worrying about n layers of abstraction to complete
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I worked with a guy who would say “With a K” to imply something is not the real thing. For example instead of calling foe pearls that, he would say “Those are pearls with a K”. It’s not something I ever picked up and ran with but hey, to each his own. My target of
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