I can really do well with Windows in my everyday work. Being a developer, a lot of shit that gets on my nerves is usually solvable. But there are two little gems that always get me going when they happen. First of all, I’m one of those guys who sets his taskbar to auto-hide. So [...]

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 [...]