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Noddy data recovery script for text files

Yesterday I turned my hand to recovering some data from our old wiki server. I spent a little time poking around looking for open source tools to help and found scalpel and foremost. They look quite powerful but do work by looking for file signatures in headers. Pretty much every file has these signatures apart [...]

Learning to love the snake

Yesterday I finished of what is hopefully the last testing release of the product I’m responsible for, assuming no major problems it will go gold soon. This means I can start on doing some new development work. The thing I’m working on next will be done in a scripting language as basically the task of [...]