David A. Wheeler’s Personal Home Page

2005-05-27
I'll be speaking 3 June at the International Free Software Forum (FISL), Brazil

2005-05-03
In memorium: Dennis W. Fife

2005-05-02
Trend: Simple, readable text markup languages

• Security
  • Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO -- Creating Secure Software
  • flawfinder, a source code scanner
  • Securing Microsoft Windows (for Home and Small Business Users)
  • SCM Security
  • BROWSER convention discussion
  • Java Security, a tutorial
  • Easier Email Security is on the Way?
  • Write It Secure: Format Strings and Locale Filtering
  • Stacker, my Linux Security Module (LSM), is now maintained by Serge E. Hallyn [old version]
• Software Innovations
  • The Most Important Software Innovations
  • Microsoft, the Innovator?
  • Innovation and OSS/FS
• Countering Spam
  • Countering Spam Using Email Passwords
  • Comments on Email Authentication for Countering Spam
  • Stop Spam! (Essay)
  • Guarded Email Protocol
• Java
  • Java Implementations (with David K. Friedman)
  • Java Security, a tutorial
• Chess
  • A Garden of Chess Openings
  • Fischer Random Chess (Chess960)
  • Famous chess games: The Game of the Century (PGN/Text), The Immortal Game (PGN/Text), The Evergreen Game (PGN/Text), Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 (PGN/Text)
  • ChessClub
• Ada
  • Lovelace, Ada95 tutorial
  • AdaCGI
  • vim Ada mode
  • My keynote presentation at SIGAda 2003
  • Environment
  • Steelman papers
• Mathematical Recreations
  • The Definitive Four Fours Answer Key
  • Way Off Base, discussing weird bases
  • When Adding and Multiplying are the Same

• Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)
  • Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers!
  • OSS/FS References
  • How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs
  • Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs
  • Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else
  • Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems
  • What Should Governments Examine in Acquiring COTS Open Source Software (OSS)? (presentation)
• Source Lines of Code (SLOC)
  • Counting SLOC papers, inc. "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux’s size"
  • SLOCCount, a program to measure SLOC
  • Linux Kernel 2.6: It’s Worth More!
• Other Documents I maintain
  • Linux Program Library HOWTO
  • Uri(7), documentation on URI/URLs for Linux
• Miscellaneous Software
  • Totro, a random name generator (also: Totro.pl)
  • Various documents in Plucker format
  • D-BUS and D-BUS CIDL
  • html2wikipedia
  • quoter, translates HTML, SGML, and XML quotation marks
  • mm2frame
  • db2latex
  • "Klingon" (tty game) source code: Original or Next Generation
  • Implementing languages on 6502s
• Computer-related essays
  • Suggestions for Palm users
  • Quotes in HTML
  • My FOSDEM 2002 Travelogue
  • Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems
  • SCM Security
  • My review of Debugging by David J. Agans
  • Simple and Readable Text Markup Languages vs. Rich Web Text Editing
• Miscellaneous Essays
  • Liberty Bill 2
  • Treat Washington, DC as Part of Maryland for Congressional Elections
  • Random Opinions
  • Man as the World-Builder
  • How to Throw a Matrix Party
  • Crystal City Name Changes
  • Miscellaneous links