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WebPasswd

  By Sam | 22nd June 2014 - 11:54 am | Php, Projects, Web Leave a comment

webpasswdWebPasswd is a password app that I have been working on, its a self hosted PHP app, that stores usernames and password (along with notes) in an encrypted file.

I’ve released it under the MIT license and available on github at https://github.com/sam159/WebPasswd

 

Htaccess Builder

  By Sam | 3rd July 2012 - 10:46 pm | Programming, Projects, Servers, Tips, Web Leave a comment

Here is a new tool for creating those often frustrating .htaccess files. It has the catchy name of Htaccess Builder and has been created by yours truly.

It is still in beta (like all great web 2.0 things) and I am looking for input to improve and expand it.

At the time of writing you can (not an exhaustive list):

  • Mass redirect urls
  • Redirect domains
  • Map urls to an index file (for fancy/pretty urls)

It has a Uservoice page at https://htaccess.uservoice.com for any and all input, so please let me know what you think and what’s missing that you would like to see.

Spotify Notifier

  By Sam | 25th April 2012 - 5:39 pm | C#, Programming, Projects Leave a comment

Spotify is my music player of choice and naturally I want to be able to know what I’m listening to without bringing up Spotify.

At work this is no problem as macs have growl (yes, iMac at work :). At home I have a Windows machine, although while there is growl for windows, Spotify doesn’t use it :sadface:

Solution? Write my own notifier of course, made possible by the fact that Spotify has the current track in its window title.

Long story short, it does this:

Fades in, and fades out again when a new song is playing. It also remembers its position when closed.

Its not configurable, changes to fade speed, time etc. would need to be done in code.

Written in C# with VS2008, source available via GitHub.
ClickOnce install/launcher: ClickOnce (click launch rather than install)
Traditional Installer: SpotifierNotifier-1.0.1.2 (Zip) (RAR)

New in version 1.0.1 21/05/2012 (Thanks to Petter Östergren for suggesting improvements)

  • Popup can now be resized
  • Popup remembers position/size when moved rather than closed
  • Should not steal focus

Text block clock

  By Sam | 15th May 2010 - 4:58 pm | Blah, C#, Programming, Projects Leave a comment

Clock

This is a clock that tells you the time by highlighting text in a block of text. In this case using a C# Console App. Not exactly original, but I thought I’d give it a try.
The progress bar counts the time until the next 5 minute mark.

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Live Mirror

  By Sam | 29th December 2009 - 11:37 am | C#, Programming, Projects Leave a comment

Here’s a C# program to mirror all changes in one directory with another.

I build it to let me edit a PHP web project on my development PC and have it mirrored to my development server, without any action on my part.

Its all being hosted at Google Code, go on give it a try :)
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