Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Adding notes to Revelation

Revelation is a nice little python application that manages your passwords. I thought it would be a good application to use as most password managers are either too heavy or very ugly looking.
The only problem is that the official version of Revelation does not support notes for the password entries. So I decided to create [...]

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New Symfony Color Scheme for Vim

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of PHP programing using symfony application framework. I think it is one of the best PHP frameworks out there. Not to mention that the community is always willing to help, and they have really good documentation. Something lacking in other frameworks I’ve used in the past.

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Tango color scheme

When I saw uwstopia’s post on Tango terminal I fell in love with the color scheme right away. Basically it follows the Tango Desktop Project color scheme with a few exceptions. Personally I spend so much time on the terminal that this scheme make it easier on the eyes. But there was one problem I [...]

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Making Ruby Logging Simple with Log4r

I am in the process of learning Ruby and while browsing the web I found TeensyMud which is a simple MUD server written in Ruby. The thing that caught my eye was how they implemented logging with Log4r.

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Symfony Open-Source PHP Web Framework

For quite a while now I’ve been doing PHP development and have gone through my own self evolution. I started like any newbie coding PHP inline with my HTML code. This was fine when I did simple sites, one or two pages but as I stared moving along to bigger projects this just didn’t cut [...]

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Read OpenSSL files in PHP

I finally got PHP to open encrypted files created with OpenSSL. I use openssl in the command line to encrypt files with AES cipher 128 block size and 256 key length with salt.

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