The last months, qTranslate was blocking my updates, because it gave me the message it will break my site. Too bad, the developer/maintainer of qTranslate seems to have abandoned his project, or he couldn’t find the time anymore. Luckily, thanks to the open-source-ness of the plugin, some brave souls have Read more…
Started working with Python, which is extremely easy and a joy to work in. It also has great libraries and tools you can use. So, also started using CherryPy to power the XML API I am working on. While debugging it throws out a lot of messages on stdout, of Read more…
Case Study In part 1 we defined our limits and the requirements needed to replace PHP. We gave Python a first look and found out it is quite easy to use it in Apache. To get a good feeling of what Python can do and how to build a Real Read more…
Introduction Yes, you read it correctly. After years (approximately 13) of using PHP as my go-to tool for web development, I decided to ditch it. It was becoming more and more of a nuisance and when I got more into C# and Java development lately, PHP started to really feel Read more…
When we launched Snøg Avalanche Buddy, we also decided to post the app on some winter sports forums. The reactions we got there were mixed, but mainly very negative. Part of the negativity was aimed at the safety of the app. In one case we were even threatened, that we Read more…
They oversimplify things, you can not pack a successful business / career / interview in 10 simple rules. If you could, everyone would be successful and not everyone is; hence they are nonsense. They are basically adverts, they often end in “Dude McDudeson is the author of ‘Be Branson overnight’ Read more…
For our Snøg Android app, I was browsing the web, figuring out how to add the UnlockBar I wrote to a Dialog, to create a slide-to-OK dialog. I reckoned this would be a simple case of extending the Dialog or AlertDialog class, build it and be done with it. Well Read more…
This week, I took up porting our Snøg Avalanche Buddy to iPhone. To do so, I had to learn quite some things. This post will touch all the troubles I have encountered and I try to compare it to developing an app in Android. Development Machine The first hurdle to take is Read more…
Create keys: var csp = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(keyStrength); var privateKey = csp.ExportCspBlob(true); var publicKey = csp.ExportCspBlob(false); Sign data: var csp = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(); csp.Clear(); csp.ImportCspBlob(File.ReadAllBytes(privateKeyFile)); var sig = csp.SignData(data, new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider()); Verify data: csp.Clear(); csp.ImportCspBlob(File.ReadAllBytes(publicKeyFile)); if (csp.VerifyData(data, new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider(), sig)) { Console.WriteLine(“Data is OK”); } else { Console.WriteLine(“Data is Read more…
I patched a little Python script to correctly copy .MOD/.MOI files to MPEG-2, including the aspect ratio bug in the format: http://www.friesoft.nl/files/sdcopy.py. It is tested and works on Ubuntu 12.04.