Apr articles

Working with SSH Public Keys

This post is meant to be more of a sign post than anything else...For any fresh installation, a connection via SSH to a remote machine results in the request to store the public key. You have to respond with the letters 'yes' in order to allow the connection to …

The Forbidden Fruit

"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."- Genesis 2:16,17 (AV) …

Javascript and the DOM

The DOM now makes sense! For the longest time I was completely perplexed as to the rationale behind Javascript. In object-oriented design, the fundamental concept is that of a data structure referred to as a class from which objects ('classes at work') are instantiated. The class is the abstraction - …

Pointers (References) in Programming (especially C/C++)

While learning how to write computer programs in C is quite straightforward for the first few miles, it is not until pointers are conquered that a whole new world opens up. This is not to say that pointers are complicated and hard to learn. Rather, much of the power in …