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TINU went public
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 @ 05:12 PM Author: Viktor Hercinger
As of today my pet project is online and public. So I'd like to introduce it (as a FAQ, however no questions were asked yet):
What is TINU?
TINU is a unit test framework. The way it organizes tests should be familiar to anyone who used xUnit or something similar.
Why another unit test ...
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Esoteric languages
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 @ 06:12 PM Author: Viktor Hercinger
There are quite a few so called 'esoteric programing languages': languages that are funny, witty, interesting or plain stupid without having any practical value. These are kind of in-jokes of the CS and IT trade. They are often used as exaggerations of already existing languages.
And this is the keyword we're looking for. They are satires. ...
All the small things
Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 12:12 AM Author: Viktor Hercinger
It still amuses me to no end how small differences in code can make or break a feature.
Take todays assignment for example: SCB wasn't letting a connection through. The proxy failed to verify correctly an RSA key. The difference was that the exponent of the public key was padded with a zero at the start ...
Some DB rambling
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 11:12 PM Author: Viktor Hercinger
Today we (me and nucc) were trying to find out why a particular PostgreSQL query took forever to complete. The query analyzer showed three levels of nested loops, lot an' lots of string comparisons, etc. After analyzing the results we came up with a solution that will increase speed by a factor of 10... ...
rsync configuration
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 @ 01:11 AM Author: Viktor Hercinger
I finaly had to do a basic rsync setup to sync my files between my netbook and my desktop. While I'd like to tell a tale about how heroic my efforts were to set up the server, I'll just pass the link to a basic setting howto which I used. Have fun.
Eyes on the prize
Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 09:11 PM Author: Viktor Hercinger
I haven't been writing much (read: any) lately but I have a reason: the last few weeks have been pretty eventful. We have been making sure that the newest SSB (1.1) will be something we can release with a clear conscience. I think that we just did it. The preview demo went pretty well and ...
QUnit
Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 08:09 PM Author: Viktor Hercinger
Some time ago I had to write a few unit tests for syslog-ng Agent. To be a bit more specific: a new release came with the feature of white-list filters (instead of blacklist ones). This means that only messages matching the filter criterias will pass.
This new feature required some unit tests, so I was asked ...