New Years Redistributions
In order of ascending awesomeness, YelloSoft projects over the winter include the binfix number formatting library for Node.js; new Windows installers for the curl, grep, and nano Unix programs; rewrites of ROT13, D&D Dice, and Word Count in pure Node.js, with improved interfaces; a Pig Monte Carlo simulation; and Haskell for the Evil Genius, a declarative programming language tutorial for malcontents.
Perl hackery lead to glue.pl, portable software for Windows password retrieval. Copy to a USB drive, insert into the desired computer, and a window pops up listing passwords for each computer account.
If you haven't guessed already, we really like Node.js, the server-side JavaScript web programming language. Finally, winter development tops off with cloud computing. Redis is a simple key store, and Node.js is a simple web server, so it makes sense to combine the two. Node.js + Redis = Regenboog, an online rainbow table for pentesting. The service includes a RESTful API; HTML, JSON, and TXT interfaces; and a simple GUI for searching a database of 68K+ passwords and hashes. Regenboog is hosted by the free Joyent cloud computing service.