Using Shared Properties in ASP.NET and WinForms

A good business library should be able to drive behavior on any number of devices, exposing a application programming interface that is agno...

Copying code != Copying implementation

A little over a week ago, I wrote an article about some common porting mistakes for a new library - LibreSSL. I've since received multi...

A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom

Last week, I wrote two articles pointing out issues with unofficial porting efforts of LibreSSL . In these articles, I highlighted some is...

Bootstrap Navbar Active Class with MVC

The ASP.NET MVC project template comes with Bootstrap scaffolding by default. And Bootstrap comes with default styling for active navbar li...

Common LibreSSL porting mistakes

The other day I wrote an article discussing LibreSSL , and the common mistakes being made by those thinking they know how to port it to oth...

GCC 4.9 Diagnostics

GCC 4.9 added support for colorizing the warning and error output to make it easier to understand what went wrong during compilation of s...

LibreSSL: The good and the bad

OpenSSL & LibreSSL OpenBSD recently forked the popular SSL/TLS library OpenSSL into LibreSSL . Most of the reaction to this that I...