My First FreeBSD Port
A nice surprise last week: textproc/libcrm114 became my first official FreeBSD port. :-)
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Helpful Books to Understand the Architecture of Snort
Every now and then the Snort mailing lists get “homework questions” like how to learn about the program’s architecture. IMHO the most helpful books for a more detailed insight are:
Three years later, a new Psi
I am quite happy about this announcement of a new Psi release from the Delta XMPP Project. I was afraid my favorite XMPP/Jabber client was dead and I had to look for a new one.
While searching for the project status I also found the OTR plugin I missed for some time now. Now my only remaining problem is the IPv6 support. ;-)
PHP memcached session handler security
One subsystem of a PHP server is its session handling. In multi user systems the choice of handlers requires a tradeoff between performance, persistence, and security/user isolation. Because my setup does not seem to be common I document it here. Read the rest of this entry »
LaTeX minted
The minted package is a possible alternative to listing. It provides syntax highlighting for sourc code in LaTeX documents by calling the Python pygmentize tool.
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CUnit
As the name says CUnit is an xUnit implementation for the C programming language.
In comparison to dynamic programming languages the test organization requires much more manual glue code. Because C has no introspection one has to register every test case manually. Likewise there is no support for utilities like mock object generation or annotations.
On the other hand unit tests can be very useful in C, for example when implementing data structures. Test cases may isolate null pointer dereferencing and one can use valgrind on them to detect memory leaks at the lowest level.
System hardware requirements
Just some random observation: At LinuxTag a surprisingly frequent question was “what are the hardware requirements for BSD?”. Read the rest of this entry »
Text::AI::CRM114
I released my first CPAN module.
I finally played with libcrm114, a C library that implements several text classification algorithms. It is a potential replacement for the mailreaver.crm tool, which is the basis for my SpamAssassin plugin. Read the rest of this entry »