The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

Technology and Software Development

The home for all documentation related to the IPTables bandwidth monitor project is now located here. This should be a useful resource for all users wanting to know about how to install, configure and use this useful tool.

For the past few months I’ve been working on extending my WRT54GL LinkSys Router (which runs the excellent Tomato firmware) to add the ability to monitor per client bandwidth usage on our family network to the Internet. As is the trand, our ISP caps our monthly bandwidth usage and therefore we need to know eho [...]

Too many things are going on and all at the same time. Before I forget, I thought it would be good to write about some of the things taking place.
Tomato firmware:
Fresh on my mind is the Tomato firmware updates that I mentioned earlier. The Tomato firmware is a packaged piece of software that runs many [...]

Lets face it no matter where you work, if you’ve been there long enough you find out that some piece of legacy software (perhaps an internal tool) is still being used but hasn’t been updated for a decade or two. Think about all those versions of the .NET framework dating back to 1.1 and 1.0, [...]

When IE8 was released I was asked to do some evaluation of our somewhat large ActiveX application to see what issues to expect. The single largest issue was the fact that suddenly none of our modal dialogs were modal any longer! Now depending on your design, this new behaviour could be disastrous (and it would [...]