Few updates here, sorry

You may have noticed that I haven't updated the Plan B blog since February. This is largely because I've been spending most of my blogging cycles on my employer's blog, BreakingPoint Labs. I suppose I should blogspam myself and just repost here, but I'd hate to divert the traffic. At any rate, that link goes to just my posts -- click around the rest of the blog for other people's.

My last post there was about AIM, specifically about AIM file transfers. It's a ripping yarn, to be sure. Here's a prettier version of the Ruby code to calculate file checksums.

So, whee.

New Job For Me

So, I've finally caught my breath.

In the last month, I've a) bought a new house, b) rented out my old house, c) moved my family 7 miles, d) suffered (with said family) some horrible bronchial infection and e) got a new position at BreakingPoint Systems, where I've been doing nothing but brush up on my practical Ruby and XML, and learn various protocol specs so that I can actually perform the job they hired me for (which is essentially modeling real-world protocol implementions in, you guessed it, Ruby and XML).

I have learned that faithfully replicating a protocol is a lot harder than merely detecting one. :)

So, now that I've caught my breath (figurative and literal -- coughing spasms really suck at 3am), I'll start posting to my dumb blog again, and try very hard to not snipe at the current round of WSJ articles with ridiculous titles about my former employer.

Oh, and I don't have a cell phone at the moment. If you think you know my phone number, you're wrong. E-mail me if you'd like to get in touch.