Up and Coming
I just wanted to post a quick update about what is coming up, and what I have been working on. Obviously part 4 of the “A Bit of Dart” series is on its way! I have been side tracked a bit because Linux...
View ArticleA great way to start the year
Exciting news everyone! Linux Journal has accepted my article about Google Dart to be published in their March 2013 issue. Although nothing is 100% until the issue layout has been created, I’m sure...
View ArticleA Practical review of Practical Vim
I have finished my first read through of Practical Vim by Drew Neil and my first impression is WOW! I didn’t realize what a Vim beginner I was until I read this book. The book is organized into 121...
View ArticleTo goto or not to goto
When ever I get into a discussion about C with other developers I inevitably get asked “You don’t use goto statements do you?” For years I would answer “of course not! That’s bad practice!” Without...
View ArticleGoing with the underdog
For a few years I have been using VPS link as the virtual machine host for my website. They were great, but nothing has changed with them in a few years and the VPS specs started to get a bit stale. I...
View ArticleUpdated examples for LJ Dart article
When I wrote the article for Linux Journal about Dart (back in December) I was using dart version 0.2.9.9_r16323, which at the time was the newest version. Now 3 months later when the article is...
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A busy month, a shiny new product!
This has been a hectic month at work! We are releasing several new products and unveiling them at NAB on April 8th. One of the products, the AdCaster is near and dear to my heart! I have been working...
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Spared no expense
One of my favorite movies that I will watch any time it is playing is Jurassic Park. I don’t know what it is about that movie but every time I watch it I see or realize something new.One of the...
View ArticleA tour of the lesser known coreutils - part 1
The GNU coreutils are a set of tools that come with every flavor of Linux. They are a useful and historical part of the Unix and Linux operating systems and you use them everyday without realizing....
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A tour of the lesser known coreutils - part 2
In part 1 I introduced 6 of the lesser known core utilities. One thing I forgot to mention is that OSX prefixes all of the coreutil commands with the letter ‘g’. So head is ghead on a Mac. With that...
View ArticleA tour of the lesser known coreutils - Part 3
This is the final stop on our tour of the lesser known coreutils. If you haven’t already done so, you should read part 1 and part 2 first. Once again let’s dive in with some cool commands!mktempmktemp...
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Graphical user interfaces from a bash script using Zenity - Part 1
As any developer knows, reading and writing to the terminal (via stdin and stdout) are basic skills required to perform even the most fundamental programming task. Every language has their own...
View ArticleThe Hand of Thief Trojan
Recently there was an announcement about a trojan program that targets Linux machines. It is a pretty impressive piece of software! It has the ability to detect if it is running in a virtual...
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Graphical user interfaces from a bash script using Zenity - Part 2
In Part 1 of using Zenity we covered some pretty cool GUI components that can be used from a shell script. This time we will be finishing up with some examples of how to integrate some more complex...
View ArticleTesting Memory I/O Bandwidth
Very frequently at my company, we find ourselves pushing our hardware to its limit. Usually we are able to dig in and find some optimizations that we may have missed before to squeeze some extra...
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Network Socket Programming with Dart 1.0
It’s hard to believe that I started writing about Google Dart a year ago this November, and almost like clock work Dart SDK 1.0 was released on November 14th. With the release of version 1.0 comes a...
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Secure Sockets and Servers with Dart 1.0
My last post on Socket Programming with Dart was a huge hit and I got some requests to follow it up with a websockets version. I am more then happy to oblige, but before I can dive into websockets and...
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WebSocket programming with Dart 1.1
WebSockets are the new hotness when programming client side web applications. They eliminate the need for AJAX polling and other annoying workarounds that have been employed to make up for the fact...
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UDP Socket Programming with Dart (Unicast and Multicast)
So far I have covered a variety of sockets that are supported by Dart. Just recently the Dart developers added the ability to use UDP sockets to the dart:io library. So for this installment I will...
View ArticleWhere have you been?
It is hard to believe how quickly times flies! It has been over a year since I posted any updates to my blog, but I have been so busy it feels like yesterday that I was talking about Dart UDP support....
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