This guy at one Hirelite blog made a very good point about those job advertisements you see looking for a “rock star” programmer. Same basic principle applies to “ninja” coders. Stop it, just please stop it. As well as everything that guy just argued, a “rock star” programmer to me means someone who’ll take horrible [...]

I’ve decided to play with Github recently. I like it. Git confuses the hell out of me. I get how it works (use Mercurial regularly at work, which is the same DVCS idea), but github does seem to make certain things much easier (setting up a remote repo, worrying about SSH keys, that sort of [...]

A while back for a forensics assignment, I had to complete a task that involved analysing a VirtualBox disk image. I wrote a quick script that converted the VDI image to RAW (.img) format by just stripping out some headers. I knew at the time that it wouldn’t support split images. It turns out that [...]