Nate's Programming Blog

Well it’s 2:30 am and I just painfully relearned how to create self-signed certificates using OpenSSL. Therefore, in order to prevent another long night of having to learn this again, I’m going to post the instructions I wrote. To create the signed certificate request, execute this command: openssl req –new –out server.csr –config openssl.conf (The […]

Everytime I start thinking that Microsoft isn’t that bad, they prove me wrong. Take a look.

I have wanted to change the look of my blog for a while now and couldn’t come up with any ideas. Well, I finally got around to deciding on a different look and I would like to know what everyone thinks. It isn’t a big change, but I think it makes the actual content easier […]

I saw a very interesting movie the other day on lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming and you are consciously aware of the fact that you are dreaming. Once in this state you can then alter and control the dream. It was a very interesting movie. It basically follows the protagonist around […]

This is more for me than anyone else. Another essential book I haven’t gotten around to purchasing yet.

There are some that say that unit tests should be the fundamental base testing strategy for any class that you write and that integration tests should be developed on top of those unit tests. I understand the reasoning behind this idea, but I feel in some cases creating a unit test just doesn’t make all […]

Took a class last week on Test First Development taught by Brian Button. I really like a lot of the ideas associated with this methodology. There were a couple of issues I have with some of the ideas though. I like the idea of writing a simple test, then writing some simple code for that […]

I just read a post on one of Jeffrey Zeldman’s blogs about a book he recommends. The name of the book is Stylin’ with CSS : A Designer’s Guide and it looks like a good CSS reference guide. This is mainly a reminder for me to go get this book, but I know some of […]

Well I’ve finished the html for the project I’m working on at Monsanto. I’ve been able to make it compliant with xhtml 1.1 strict and it is completely style driven. This of course wasn’t how I got the html. The html they gave me wasn’t even valid 4.01 Transitional and since I’m using xslt to […]

I was surfing cable last night and discovered a movie called “Before Sunrise.” It had Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, so I thought I would give it a try. It turned out to be one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. How in the world did this movie get by under the radar? […]