Category Archives: Architecture

Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Erlang, Mobile, Project, Python | 1 Comment

The forgotten art of error checking

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Go, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Snippet, Test | 10 Comments

Breaking into an Android password manager – Practice

Posted on 2009-12-05 by Gustavo Niemeyer

In the last post, we’ve seen some security issues which exist in the Android password manager gbaSafe version 1.1.0a, by analyzing the security description provided in its web site. As described there, even though the system depends on a “master … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Mobile, Puzzle, Security | 5 Comments

Breaking into an Android password manager – Theory

Posted on 2009-12-01 by Gustavo Niemeyer

For some time now I’ve been wanting to research more deeply about the internals of Android. Until now, though, this was just a sentiment. Then, a couple of weeks ago I’ve finally managed to replace my iPhone for an Android … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Java, Mobile, Puzzle, Security | 4 Comments

The last 4 years (and the next N?)

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Some interesting changes have been happening in my professional life, so I wanted to share it here to update friends and also for me to keep track of things over time (at some point I will be older and will … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Java, Project, Python | 5 Comments

Virtual Private Cloud is not the Private Cloud

Posted on 2009-08-27 by Gustavo Niemeyer

More than 40 years ago, a guy named Douglas Parkhill described the concept of utility computing. He described it as containing features such as: Essentially simultaneous use of the system by many remote users. Concurrent running of different multiple programs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud | 4 Comments

Accessing RESTful information efficiently

Posted on 2009-07-23 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Alright, so I appreciate the idea of RESTful Web Services, but I’ve got a small dilemma I’d appreciate some opinions on. In the RESTful Web Services book, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, there’s emphasis on making the programmable web … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | 28 Comments