Exploding Coder

One of the greatest ideals of high level programming is the idea of code reuse. In the old days, this was only ever done using functions or subroutines, depending on the language. In later days, this was performed as object oriented design. Every language seems to accomplish these ideals in various ways to accomplish a similar goal.

As an IT guy, I look to using computers to solve some of my day to day problems. I say computers in plural because I readily use two at home and one at work, and I could also be in the internet cafe near my work. For instance, I store my personal passwords and other sensitive information in Crypt File Manager. It stays secure by encryption in such a way that not even my web host provider can access the data and the password is not stored anywhere on the web server or browser. This solution works great because I can access it wherever I want with only a web browser.

To solve some of my own problems, I've developed several small web applications.

Symmetric Crypt Tool: As an experiment with symmetric encryption, I put together a simple example to show how it works. You can choose from DES or Blowfish ciphers and encrypted output can be binary, hex string, or base64 encoded.

Written in Perl/CGI and uses the Crypt::CBC module bundle for ciphers.

MMCd is an open source solution for realtime datalogging of ECU parameters on certain year Mitsubishi vehicles using a Palm handheld.
I am not the author, but a contributor to the MMCd project. However, I have authored the MMCd Tools add-on, used for datalog conversion to Excel on PC platform during HotSync.
Read more at the MMCd homepage.

Microsoft recently launched a new event in cities across the US to showcase Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 with tracks geared towards developers and admins. The event is free and you get free eval copies of the stuff. So, why the hell wouldn't you want to take a day off and go?

http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx