Let me present you with a bit of code which you might find quite commonly in a program: void function_1(type a, type b) { if (complex_form...
The Sorry State of Sound in Linux
Lets start with some background. Back in the old days, if you had a PC, there was only one card called "the sound card", which of ...
Can you trust your security application?
Let me begin with a nice mathematical problem. Say you have a divorced couple that are currently discussing over the phone how to divide up...
File Dialogs - Take 2
My previous article on file dialogs generated much feedback, and I got varied responses from all kinds of people. I'll go over the feedb...
Quicksort
Sorting is something most programs have to do on some occasion. Quicksort is accepted as the best in-practice general purpose sorting algori...
Methods for safe string handling
Every now and then you hear about how a buffer overflow was discovered in some program. Immediately, everyone jumps on the story with their ...
Are open source libraries written properly?
Every now and then you hear people discussing open source applications and libraries, and how a bug was found. The multitude of bugs being f...
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