Cyotek Development Blog

One of our internal tools eschews XML or JSON configuration files in favour of something more human readable - YAML using YamlDotNet. For the most part the serialisation and deserialisation of YAML documents in .NET objects is as straight forward as using libraries such as JSON.net but when I was working on some basic serialisation there were a few issues. This article describes how to use the `IYamlTypeConverter` interface to handle custom YAML serialisation functionality.

Richard Moss

Apr 01, 2017

A short follow up which demonstrates how to write a RIFF palette with ease.

Richard Moss

Mar 04, 2017

At the start of 2014, I published an article describing how to read colour palettes from BBM/LBM files. At the end of that article I noted that Microsoft palette files used a similar format, but I didn't investigate that at the time. Since then I followed up with articles on reading and writing Adobe's Color Swatch and Color Exchange format files and I posted code for working with JASC, Gimp and other palette formats. Now, finally, I decided to complete the collection and present an article on reading Microsoft's palette files.

Richard Moss

Feb 18, 2017

Previously, I've described on this blog how to do a basic integration of NDepend with Jenkins pipeline jobs. The disadvantages of the previous post was it was essentially part of a series tailored to our build process and so not easy to view as a stand-alone article and it only covered pipelines. This complementary post covers how to perform the same level of integration with a freestyle project.

Richard Moss

Feb 11, 2017

One of the security features of Jenkins is to send Content Security Policy (CSP) headers which describes how certain resources can behave. The default policy is extremely restrictive which can cause problems with content added to Jenkins via build processes. This post describes how to either temporarily or permanently change the CSP to be less restrictive.

Richard Moss

Feb 03, 2017

After two posts regarding building and publishing Nuget packages with Jenkins pipelines, I now follow up with details on integrating NDepend with the pipeline job.

Richard Moss

Jan 27, 2017

A follow up to my first post on Jenkins pipelines, by upgrading the script to work with parametrised builds, allowing one script to handle multiple pipeline jobs.

Richard Moss

Jan 20, 2017

A fairly lengthy post which describes how to setup a Jenkins Pipeline to build, test and publish Nuget packages, along with some tips and caveats learned from working with pipelines.

Richard Moss

Jan 14, 2017

I've recently been updating our series on dithering to include ordered dithering. However, in order to fully demonstrate this I also updated the sample to include basic color quantizing with a fixed palette. While color reduction and dithering are related, I didn't want to cover both topics in a single blog post, therefore this post covers finding the nearest color via Euclidean distance.

Richard Moss

Jan 06, 2017

StartSSL code signing certificates are crippled and your binaries no longer trusted once they have expired, even if they have been counter signed. Not to mention the other trust issues that StartSSL are experiencing.

Richard Moss

Jan 05, 2017

A round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.

Richard Moss

Jan 01, 2017

A very short note on an unexpected log message which appeared when testing CopyTools FTP support.

Richard Moss

Nov 05, 2016