William Heinbockel

Many applications rely on externally developed code and libraries to support certain functionality. Examples include the integration of Apache or other webserver to provide browser-based configuration or the use of parsing libraries such as libxml or expat to ...

From the security perspective, we need developers and engineers to “think more securely”. However, this is easier said than done. We need to first address several important issues:

1. What does “think security” mean and how does one use ...

With rapid development and deployment cycles, software developers cannot wait on the long cycles needed for most standards bodies. In the case of internationally recognized standards bodies such as IETF, W3C, and ISO, the time need to take ...

There are many different “assurance” terms used to define various parts of the network and information stack.

For most needs, terms like “software assurance” and “information assurance” suffice. However, I cannot find any place that really compares the ...

Updated 2012-09-26: Fix the gsettings pipeline commands; add current slidecasting configuration

Continuing on a little mini-series of slide- and screen-casting notes (post 1, 2) here is an overview of the screencast recorder built into GNOME3.

Normally, you can ...

The problem with my previous attempt to slidecast a movie, pdf2ogv, from OpenOffice Impress was the lack of flexibility.

If you just have a set of pictures or simple slides, that approach is simple and straightforward. But what ...

Updated 2012-10-23: Experiments show that using MP4 instead of Ogg/OGV yields to a better quality in video and audio with a reduced file size. View my current pdf2mp4 script in my GitHub repo.

As part of my ...