Brutal Dev's Guide to Klapping Boet Fighter
Many okes like myself find Boet Figther incredibly difficult (as it was intended). So flippin tough, that okes have been klapping the game for several hours and only getting to the…
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I'm Werner, a software developer and business owner working in fintech. I share practical lessons in .NET development, web scraping, security and performance, alongside my work in agentic engineering
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21 articlesThe VAST data leak
February 27, 2017 Earlier this month it was brought to my attention that VAST, a prominent WiFi provider in South Africa, had private user information exposed on publicly visible p…
Bank Grade Security - South African bank edition
After reading an interesting post by Troy Hunt about so called "bank grade" security on Aussie internet banking sites I was curious to see what the results would be for South Afric…
.NET Assembly Strong-Name Signer
-- Download (v3.7.0.0) -- -- NuGet Package -- Automatic strong-name signing of referenced assemblies. Build tasks and utility software to strong-name sign .NET assemblies, includin…
Error reporting with PushingBox
One of my users let me know they were using a cloud service called PushingBox to be notified of events in Directory Monitor. I investigated what it can do and immediately thought o…
Maximum lossless image compression and optimization
Scott Hanselman has referred to lossless image compression/optimization, especially PNG files, for quite some time. I’ve also been using these tools for ages but was surprised to h…
Logging setup in 5 minutes with NLog
UPDATE: The latest version of NLog breaks many of these tools by including NLog data by default. The code has been updated to correct this problem by excluding it for both Sentinel…
Generating statistics from SVN
A subversion repository contains a tome of information about your code and looking at this data can prove very useful in identifying trends in development. Quite some time ago I pu…