24 October 2010 
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Well, I’ve done it; I’ve written an application for the iPhone to be distributed in the Apple App Store! The app is mostly a pet project designed to compliment my weather website (http://wx.kd5hia.net), which is why I’m making it available free of charge. It’s been a tough road learning a new programming language. It’s been [...]
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30 July 2010 0 Comments
I received my shiny, new iPhone 4 a couple of weeks ago – nearly a month after I ordered it. It’s a real beauty, but with glass on both sides, it definitely requires protection from a fall. Apple says the glass is Gorilla Glass, from Corning, which is a chemically-strengthened glass that is very strong [...]
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14 July 2010 Comments Off
I haven’t written anything in many months, and I know that. After I returned from Qatar, things got busy with getting back into my groove. Also, the wedding was approaching, and so was the long-awaited honeymoon cruise. June marked the first moments of normalcy, which hadn’t been since early 2009 (just before I left the [...]
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24 February 2010 Comments Off
Damn, I’m behind and I know it. As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, I do have a few entries which are awaiting completion so they can be published, but I still haven’t had time to get to them. So, here’s a summary:
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31 October 2009 Comments Off
Following is a starting point for a script which will create a standard shortcut on the desktop.
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29 October 2009 Comments Off
This function will connect to Active Directory and search for a specified username, and if found, return that user’s SID. Usage: GetSIDUsingADSearch(“john.doe”) Returns: S-1-5-21-53580104-3876648466-4083845538-427214
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29 October 2009 Comments Off
I recently had a problem in one of my applications where, when trying to parse .lnk files for target (using the WshShell approach), I would get something like C:\Windows\Installer\{GUID} instead of the path to the executable. Turns out some .lnk files (shortcuts) are of a different breed, ala “MSI Shortcut” or “Windows Installer Advertised Application”. [...]
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27 October 2009 Comments Off
These functions will encrypt and decrypt (using DES) a string using a secret key. Encrypt(“I need this string to be a secret”, “$ThIsIsAsUpErSeCrEtKeY!”) will return a string with the encrypted text. Decrypt(“5FkBed78KfrLmoU==BNu37N5kl”, “$ThIsIsAsUpErSeCrEtKeY!”) will return the original string that was encrypted with Encrypt() and the same key. If a different key is used for Decrypt() [...]
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15 October 2009 Comments Off
Moments ago, I stumbled upon a case study that I helped write on a project in which I was the programmer (Brian Miller was the engineer and Trey Mayfield was the project manager). This was my flagship project during my nearly four years at Ener-Tel, and the one I’m most proud of. This was due [...]
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13 October 2009 Comments Off
I’ve run into a problem more than once where the mail() function in PHP didn’t work. Unlike in Windows, you can’t simply set an SMTP server in the php.ini file; you must set a value for the sendmail_path. If you’re running a mail server like Sendmail of Postfix alongside your web server, this is no [...]
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