Some may argue that C is an outdated language to learn in 2009. I disagree. Learning C requires some degree of understanding how computers really work. And if you can understand pointers, you're ten steps ahead of the game.

This is the first in a series of articles designed ...

Over the past year or so I've been doing a fair bit of GUI programming -- both in ${DAYJOB}s and otherwise. Until just recently most of my GUI experience has been with wxWidgets (and most of that via wxPython). Lately I've wandered to GTK.

The documentation for both ...

Every now and then I have to run a foreground job under sudo that doesn't want to die when I hit ^C. Then it's a hassle to ^Z, get the pid of the sudo job, and sudo kill that pid.

So I wrote a little script (or a ...

The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors has been out for a while now. Maybe you've already eliminated all of these errors from your code. In case you haven't, this post will help you develop a checklist that you can use to eliminate these errors ...

If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly (via slashdot). Amen! I get uncomfortable whenever I have to leave a long comment, but it's usually to document some deficiency in a lower layer that the code is working around. Typically broken hardware. (So that someone coming behind me ...