Christmas carol: XML Signatures
TL;DR: XML signatures are trouble, because they are ridiculously hard to implement right. XML signatures in PHP are double trouble, because of lack of decent libraries. .NET security libraries are […]
Hacker’s diary
Windows 10 Install
I did a clean install of Windows 10 on a brand new SSD. Good things: It was relatively straightforward and quick. It also rebooted seamlessly without requiring me to remove […]
Win32: Who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary?
I was sitting in a Dairy Queen this afternoon thinking about random stuff and suddenly this question hit me: who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary? Isn’t it some kind […]
How to break into debugger when specific Windows message is sent or posted
CodeProject We have recently been fighting a weird problem in our .NET application that was caused by a duplicate WM_KEYDOWN message. It relatively is easy to figure out who receives […]
Why identifiers with non-English letters are bad for your health
We just ran into a very funny story with UNICODE identifiers in C#. It turned out that an identifier like ХTranfer was spelled with Russian letter Х (U+0425) instead of […]
Windows Store Apps: Back to DLL Hell
I was recently tasked with creating a Windows Store (Metro, WinRT) version of an existing app. This is my first WinRT project. Documenting my experience so far: 1. So called […]
MySQL: you get what you're paying for
Long, long time ago in the galaxy not so far away I installed mySql 5.05 on my server. After some time I decided to upgrade to the current version, MySql […]
Capturing unhandled exceptions in a mixed native/CLR environment
Observing Unhandled Exceptions In .NET unhandled exceptions can be observed via AppDomain.UnhandledException event: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += myHandler; // C# In Win32 unhandled exceptions are observed via SetUnhandledExceptionFilter call: SetUnhandledExceptionFilter(myfilter); // C/C++ […]
Windows: Getting callback on child process exit in C++
In my current capacity I sometimes descend into the virtually forgotten depths of C++ desktop programming. One interesting problem I needed to solve is how to get notified about a […]
Android OS eats the battery
My Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX suddenly started eating the battery much faster than it did just a couple of days ago. I went to System Settings->Battery and discovered that the […]