The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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In recent weeks I have learned a lot of things about low level software development. My interest came from a desire to offer better than average protection to a program I am working on. Through the process of hardening my application, it became obvious to me that it would be very beneficial to learn assembly. [...]

It was 15 years ago that my wife and I first decided to try things differently. Both of us were raised in regular society, both in different kinds of christian homes, public education, etc. What did we wanted to do differently and why and what is the meaning of the title of this blog anyways?
I’ll [...]

Sometimes children have good intentions, but not the best judgment when it comes to spending time on the computer. A few months ago I decided to write a simple application to manage the access to our home computer network for our family. I did not want to try to use built in policy editing in [...]

I have been working on a soon to be open sourced application for tracking how much time a person spends on the computer (and limits them depending on many factors that an administrator can configure). This time my QA team consists of my family members (all 7).
The idea behind this application is that we allow [...]

**UPDATED February 2009 (see final comments at the bottom)
Recently I blogged regarding the purchase (as well as defects found) in FIFA 08. This game has quickly become one of my favorite games. It is not violent (maybe the players can be a little pushy) and allows for the whole family to play multi-player over our [...]