So, a few weeks ago I finally got an Android smartphone and was faced with quite the problem. I wanted to set up my numerous eMail accounts on the phone but was pretty much unable to enter my passwords. For a long time I’ve been using KeePass to store my passwords. Additionally, I also generate [...]

I am currently implementing a SOAP interface for a PHP application I am working on. The built-in SOAP support in PHP didn’t really provide everything I needed (namely WSDL generation), so I went with NuSoap. After a lot of pain trying to get a WSDL out of it, that Visual Studio would consume, and correctly [...]

This is pretty much a straight-forward conversion of http://www.dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2009/04/24/build-count-of-vc-project-for-version-string/ I was quite pissed that there is no easy option to get something as simple as the build date into your C# project. So here is my pre-build script I use in my C# projects: I went the easy route with this by simply dropping the [...]

This almost feels too simple to even mention it. But I guess it doesn’t hurt putting it our there. Someone might hit it in a desperate Google hunt. So this is the deal. You have a device on your network that controls another device by means of sending out simple TCP payloads. Now you want [...]

I am currently working on a project of larger scale than what I am usually working on. During this project I wrote several small tools which I personally feel are somewhat interesting. I’ll try to write up a few posts about some solutions I came up with to kinda special problems. This is the first [...]