01 December 2010

Enter a (masked) password on the DOS command line

If you ever had the task on how to retrieve a password from a user on the command line, you can find the right tool here: http://westmesatech.com/editv.html. The editv tool allows you to prompt a user for whatever input, and with the -m (masked) parameter, the entered value is masked with stars. Pretty cool! Thanks, Bill!

Should Software Architects write code?

Gregor answers this nicely in https://youtu.be/31qcPwAv8Zw . Yes, they should. But not to create production code, but to grasp the idea and ...