Monthly Archives: April 2014

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Patching the Heartbleed bug on Ubuntu

If you’ve been following any of the security chatter on the Internet, you probably are aware that the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL is a bad one. Unless you take steps on your server, an assailant can, without leaving any traces, compromise your entire SSL setup and possibly steal information from your users. Definitely a Bad […]

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Android error: android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL

In developing an application recently, I ran into a very odd error that happened in the release build but not the debug build. The stack trace looked like this: After a bunch of head-banging, it turns out that the android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL part was a complete red herring. The real key in this stack trace is line […]

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Xcode 5.1 code coverage

As you may have guessed from a previous post, code coverage is one of my favorite metrics. When Xcode 5.1 came out, it unfortunately broke the code coverage tools that I’ve been using. Fortunately, the nice folks over at qualitycoding.org jumped in and took care of the problems. See their post on the topic for […]

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