First off, let me just say that I am by no means an expert cryptographer; there are all sorts of wonderful, terrible things about hashes and block ciphers that I just don’t understand (I’d like to believe that it’s because I’ve not been exposed to them, whoever’s fault that is, and that if given a [...]

In PHP, an object is always passed around as a reference, which allows one to deal with objects in a very transparent manner, since the only way to deal with a by-value copy instead of the real deal is to explicitly use the clone operator. Recently, I came upon a situation in which it was [...]

Recently, McCain introduced a bill for consideration which would effectively block the FCC’s attempts at creating so-called “Network Neutrality” rules which ISPs and Telcos would be required to follow.  Now, setting aside for a moment the fact that McCain has received more than double as much money as the next-highest senator to be bankrolled by [...]

…if it hasn’t solved your problem yet, you’re not using enough. Curiously, I always thought of that little quip as a subtle indictment of the problems with XML, but it seems to almost be a rallying cry for proponents of the standard (I refuse to recognize XML as a “language”).  And when I say proponents, [...]