Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has always been something I wanted to fully understand eventually. A recent project I worked on has brought me one step closer, but also revealed to me the true complexity of the topic. I am now convinced that I will probably …
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is resea…
Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all p
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This is Last Week in .NET for the week that ended… well.. last week (January 16th, 2020). It was a rocky week last week; and more of the same expected this week for the Washington DC area, an…
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A customer wanted to prevent the Contoso app from showing a thumbnail preview when the user hovers over it in the taskbar. They wrote something like this: HWND h = FindWindow(TEXT("ContosoMainWindow"), NULL); BOOL fTrue = TRUE; DwmSetWindowAttribute(h, DWMWA_F…
/PRNewswire/ -- The CorNeat KPro, the first artificial cornea which completely integrates with the eye wall with no reliance on donor tissue, was successfully...
SharedArrayBuffer will arrive in Android Chrome 88. It will only be available to pages that are cross-origin isolated. Starting in Desktop Chrome 91 it will also only be available to cross-origin isolated pages. You can register for an origin trial to retain t…
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There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of...
This post shows how to use shared projects or shared assemblies for ASP.NET Core API Controllers or ASP.NET Core Razor Pages. Sometimes shared logic for different ASP.NET Web API or Web App project…
Ever wish that you could share your .NET project properties across multiple projects? Or debug that funky build? In this video, you'll learn at least 5 diffe...
This paper is the paper to read about Raft consensus algorithm and a good way to build intuition for consensus algorithms in general. The “consensus” about consensus algorithms is that they are hard to understand / build / test, and not surprisingly having an …
Introduction into security principles in the context of database systems By Andreas Wolter Preface While many of us are practicing ‘social distancing’, and spend lots of time at home, I am finally finding the time to share some of the topics with the public …
(part 1 of my series of articles on security principles in Microsoft SQL Servers & Databases) Principle of Least Privilege (POLP) The first security principle that I am going to discuss is one that most System Administrators are familiar with: the “principle…
React 17 mostly focused on under the hood changes that will make it easier for consumers to gradually upgrade in the future. There were no new features and the breaking changes, in theory, affected few consumer components. While upgrading at Wealthfront was ce…
We discuss all things open-source, leaving Michael and Joe to hold down the fort while Allen is away, while Joe's impersonations are spot on and Michael is on a first name basis, assuming he can pronounce it.
E INK has confirmed with Good e-Reader that the company has developed a 2nd generation ACEP, which is Advanced Color E-Paper. They have a subset of the technology that utilizes the the codename E INK Gallery 4100. This technology is not going to be employed fo…
Buy Nothing. Give Freely. Share Creatively. The Buy Nothing Project began when two friends, Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark, created an experimental hyper-local gift economy on Bainbridge …