Archive for July, 2006



Updated: I’ve rejigged all of this into a public, automatic key generator, that you can see here: http://www.danielbray.com/php/keygen/.

I got a broadband a while back, and it came with a wireless router, which was just enough to tip my natural anxiety over into full-blown paranoia.
So, I spent a bit of time investigating how safe I could […]

Struts: avoiding some common problems

A lot of what I do is web-applications, and the framework for serving up these web-applications that I’ve chosen to work with has been tomcat and struts: tomcat serves up the pages; struts organizes and controls the flow of the web-app. This essay is about struts, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that […]

Object-oriented programming: rarer than you think

Object-oriented languages are well known, and are part of every college CS syllabus: object-oriented programming is, however, as rare as the penny black. This is a short(-ish) essay on the subtleties of the paradigm that tend to be overlooked in the speedy twelve-week OO programming course that gets thrown at college students.
Object-oriented programming: rarer […]