V1.1 of Sunday Worship Released – Adds PowerPoint Support

We are very pleased to announce the release of  version 1.1 of SundayWorship. This release adds two major features to SundayWorship.    * Support for running Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from SundayWorship    * The ability to import songs from EasiSlides. You can download the latest version from here.

Started working on a multi-node ESMTP server written on Go.

I have started working on an idea I had for a multi-node (cluster aware) ESMTP server. I have decided to write it using Google’s Go language (for reasons which aren’t absolutely clear at the moment). Designed from the ground up to work as a cluster, each node keeps an index of the available messages by […]

My comments about a recent Live Hacking CD vs. Backtrack 4 review

McGrew Security have published a review comparing the Live Hackign CD with Backtrak4: http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/2010/05/10/live-hacking-cd-vs-backtrack-4/#comm… . Although the review is generally well balanced, I want to add a few comments: 1) Competition is good for everyone, the LHCD has only just come out of beta and is relatively young, where as BT has been around much […]

Book Review: The Design of Design by Fred Brooks (the father of System/360)

Fred Brooks the author of the legendary The Mythical Man-Month book has just released a new book The Design of Design. I’ve managed to get my hands on a review copy and here is what I thought about it: http://www.gaj-it.com/17304/from-music-to-gadget-are-the-principles-of-design…

Nova Ball

My first (and maybe last) game for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is available in App Store: http://bit.ly/c13q7F Nova Ball is a space/sci-fi accelerometer game. In the game you control the ball by holding your device parallel to the floor and tilting. The game has three modes: arcade, mayhem and missions. In arcade mode you need to […]

Live Hacking Linux Distribution

I have been working as part of a team with Dr. Ali Jahangiri to make an ethical hacking Linux distribution… The Live Hacking CD is a new Linux distribution packed with tools and utilities for ethical computer hacking, penetration testing and countermeasure verification. Based on Ubuntu this ‘Live CD” runs directly from the a CD […]

Initial thoughts on iPad

I wrote quite a long comment on Facebook and I thought I would re-use and tweak the text as my initial thoughts on the iPad. Apple are clearly marketing this between the iPhone and the MacBook but with the idea that the large screen coupled with its lightweight makes it better at certain (and only […]