January 2005 - Posts

Case-senstiveness

Published Tue, Jan 18 2005 22:11 | girishb

I have been reading about the case-sensitiveness issue at Scott Hanselman's Weblog here . Believe me, I have seen my share of this. Case-sensitivity is such a weird thing. Here is one thing that is totally and completely forced upon humans by computers...

Safe cracking for a computer guy

Published Fri, Jan 14 2005 10:02 | girishb

I found this paper by Matt Blaze via Schneier on Security It seems it has completely pissed off the locksmithing community. Interesting.. A bit scary..

VB enhancements

Published Thu, Jan 13 2005 13:56 | girishb

Matthew MacDonald describes what changes are in store for the latest version of Visual Basic, currently called Visual Basic 2005 here Note to self: Pass this to strangers looking lost in .NET :)

I had to find out, didn't I!

Published Wed, Jan 12 2005 17:48 | girishb

Herb Sutter's CPU article

Published Wed, Jan 12 2005 17:45 | girishb

In case you have not read this yet, You should. An article by Herb Sutter about CPUs, performance and free lunch via John's blog . Very neat. If you care about why I was not posting all these days, Well, I had one of those writer's blocks. I just did...