Programming

If you have been following this series, you might know that I am playing with SPF records. I have turned my eye to a and mx mechanisms. As I started looking at the a mechanism. I noticed that my current approach using the standard string functions would probably be fairly difficult to implement. So I started to think about using the Regex crate. So this will be a look at how that went. The challenges and the things that I took away from the experience.

As I work through learning rust, I figured it was time to to start doing actual testing.

Why Test

Simple, it’s really essential when building anything beyond a few lines of simple code. Being able to run a series of reproducible tests as you develop; allows you to ensure that changes you make are not breaking exisiting code. You also have the option to develop using TDD.

Of course I have not adhered to any of this as I explore the basics of working with rust. But things are progressing and I should now see how testing basically works in the world of rust.

As I mentioned in my previous article Deconstructing SPF Records with Rust. There is a case for using generics given the amount of overlap between the different mechanisms.

Hi. If you have visited my blog before you might have seen my series on using the trust-dns-resolver crate. As part of that series I looked at querying DNS TXT records. During the process I was reminded of SPF records. Something I used to deal with in a previous position. And this got me to thinking about using SPF records as a way to learn more about working with rust.

This is the third article on using the trust-dns-resolver crate
Warning: This code is not intended to be used in production. You should review and adjust to your own needs.

This is a second article on using the trust-dns-resolver crate
Warning: This code is not intended to be used in production. You should review and adjust to your own needs.

I used to often work with DNS in one of my previous jobs. So I have always had a long running interesting in DNS. Most recently I have been looking into Rust. I wanted to see how easy it might be to use rust to access DNS records, one; because rust is said to be fast, and also because it’s a safe programming language.

Final part in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Part 6 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Part 5 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.