Cory Foy

A recent thread on Joel on Software talked about negotiating. I read a book about a year ago by a brilliant guy named Herb Cohen called /Negotiate This, By Caring But Not T-H-A-T Much/. I highly recommend it if you do any kind of negotiating – even over things like what you’ll have for dinner.

So I check into my hotel in Provo, UT after all kinds of airport fiasco stuff. I open up the window and what do I see? That’s right, I’ll be darned if I didn’t check in next to Novell headquarters. I completely forgot they were out here. It’s a *very* nice looking campus, mountains all…

Heading off to our satellite office in Provo, UT this morning. Was supposed to leave last night, but the rain in Atlanta pretty much solved that mystery, so it all got shifted around a day. Will be flying back to family arriving at the house, and as soon as they leave, I leave again for…

One of my new projects at work is to ramp up a way to get our J2ME stuff under tests with JUnit. I’ve used NUnit quite a bit now, but hadn’t had a chance to get up to speed with JUnit. I found a nice article on getting JUnit running with Eclipse. The article is…

A very interesting article came out today on the SecurityFocus web site talking about Bluetooth security. More interesting than the security portions was the discussion of privacy concerns with the devices. For example, Bluetooth signals, like GPS and other devices, can be triangulated using some fairly basic equipment. Buy using some 2.4GHz amplifiers and a…

How many times have you been in the arcade, late at night, with a fistful of quarters, a steady hand, and a hankering for a stuffed toy? Yet, with all your skill and might (and quarters), do you still walk away empty handed? Well, a handy solution has been found in Indiana. In a Wal-mart…

I was flipping through Code Project today, and came across an article by Piers7 called Declarative QueryString Parameter Binding in ASP.NET. While I liked his approach, it required you to wrap all of your controls you wanted to bind with CustomAttributes. I had to do something similar (probably we all have), but I don’t have…

A funny little quote from one of the Vulnerability Development lists I’m on. The poster was talking about doing a remote exploitation of a web server: So, I am basically thinking, i overflow EIP with an address that JMP’s -260 to the beginning of the Authorization header. The Authorization header then contains my Stage1 shellcode…

This week’s Charlotte Java User’s Group meeting is on Hibernate with Gavin King of JBoss. Gavin founded the Hibernate project and is the author of /Hibernate in Action/. As always, the meeting starts at 6:30pm, and is being held at my employer’s offices. More information and directions can be found on the CharJUG web site.

Before my wife and I moved to Charlotte, I spent nearly 7 years with the Fire Department in Lutz, FL. Our particular station, averaged 4-5 calls a day, though some days we were *much* busier. We had our share of people who called us, sometimes frequently, with made-up problems. People who were just lonely and…