Objective-C Substrate Project

12 Sep 2006, 19:25 PDT

For the past few years, I've been fiddling with OpenDarwin's libFoundation in my spare time -- of which there is admitedly very little. For those new to the party, OpenDarwin's libFoundation project was an attempt to rewrite, refactor, and otherwise port the original libFoundation, as written by Ovidiu Predescu, Mircea Oancea, and Helge Hess, to Darwin. The end goals were simple. In order of importance:

The first goal was easily achieved, and surprisingly enough, I've been making some good progress on the second. With OpenDarwin's impending cessation of operation, I decided to set aside a week of my copious vacation time supplied by my generous employer to find OpenDarwin's libFoundation a new home, and tackle some difficult problems, including a unicode-aware NSString. I'm pleased to say that the week was well spent, and the newly christened Objective-C Substrate was the end result.

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OpenVPN Auth-LDAP Plugin 2.0 RC1

12 Sep 2006, 18:01 PDT

I'd like to announce the first release candidate of version 2.0 of my LDAP authentication plugin for OpenVPN

This release is a vast improvement on the rudimentary 1.0 plugin -- new features include:

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