Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I've stopped using Blogger for the weblog and have moved to using Jekyll. I've set things up so I can edit the posts on my local push, push to my server using git and it publishes the new post. Blogger provides a way to export all existing posts and comments as an XML file. I used this to manually import... more →
Blogger are deprecating their ftp publishing support and are recommending users to switch to their custom domain feature where they host the blog files for you. I prefer to keep my posts on my own server so will be switching weblog systems in the near future. This will break existing links to Atom feeds for specific labels (eg. the feed... more →
Last month I attended linux.conf.au 2010 and gave a talk on the different paths we took implementing HTML 5 video in Firefox. I wrote the talk using Eric Meyer's S5 Slide system with the video demos embedded or linked from the slides themselves. You can view the slides here: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/lca2010. To see the videos you'll need to be running a... more →
MOSREF is a secure remote injection framework written in Wasp Lisp (which I previously wrote about here). With MOSREF you have a 'console' program running which can create dones applications that are run on a target system. The console and drones can communicate with each other, executing shell commands or Wasp Lisp code. Drones can create other drones to 'bridge'... more →
Wasp Lisp is a small Scheme-like Lisp implementation developed by Scott Dunlop. It features a lightweight concurrency model (with similarities to Erlang and Termite). Wasp Lisp was originally derived from MOSREF - the Mosquito Secure Remote Execution Framework. It includes an implementation of MOSREF so can do similar things that the original was built for. Wasp feels a lot like... more →