SubscribeHistory tables? While working on a rewrite of one of our web app here at AUF, I needed to replicate a logging functionality. The old system was written with php4 (please don’t barf on your screen), and so you can imagine how such a thing could have been done: Get current entry in the table. [...]
Month: January, 2010
Packaging python applications/modules for Debian
I got to work on a fun project yesterday, I needed to build a script that could generate a Debian package from a python module. Yes, that does sound easy enough… Except that it’s not! First of all, how does one build a .deb package? There’s lots of documentation on that, probably way too much, [...]
Quickly using OpenSSL in C
A little while ago, I was working on a client/server communication module, and I wanted it to be secure. Looking at the documentation I could find, I quickly figured out that it wouldn’t necessarily be easy to do. Amongst the first issues are the validity of the server’s certificate, which, as I didn’t want to [...]
