http://danielbray.com/blog Daniel Bray's professional website Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:10:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife is currently incubating a daughter for the new year, which means that my old office at home has to go. In fact, it's going downstairs; down into a tiny alcove between the toilet and where we keep our fruit and veg. I can live with most of this, ... http://danielbray.com/blog/home-network/media-centre/ A while back I did a bit on how to generate good preshared keys for WPA. Well, in a moment of boredom I hacked together a web-facing PHP version of the same idea. You can find it here http://www.danielbray.com/php/keygen Enjoy. http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/update-wifi-encryption-how-to-make-a-good-psk-for-wpa/ UPDATE: I’ve had some trouble getting people to use this because, well, it was hard to use; so I changed it about a little: now it uses MySQL rather than XML to store the locations, and there’s a new, web-based, method for creating new locations. I’ve been playing with PHP (fun) ... http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/bringing-out-baby/ Sometimes, when you're debugging your application in eclipse, you see where you've made a mistake in your code, and that if you had assigned some variable differently, or had invoked some operation a bit earlier, your code would work. Trouble is, you're not completely sure, and you don't want to ... http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/eclipse-bugfixing/ Updated: I've rejigged all of this into a public, automatic key generator, that you can see here: http://www.danielbray.com/php/keygen/. I got a broadband a while back, and it came with a wireless router, which was just enough to tip my natural anxiety over into full-blown paranoia. So, I spent a bit of time ... http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/good-key-generation-for-wireless-encryption/ A lot of what I do is web-applications, and the framework for serving up these web-applications that I’ve chosen to work with has been tomcat and struts: tomcat serves up the pages; struts organizes and controls the flow of the web-app. This essay is about struts, and how to avoid ... http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/struts-avoiding-some-common-problems/ Object-oriented languages are well known, and are part of every college CS syllabus: object-oriented programming is, however, as rare as the penny black. This is a short(-ish) essay on the subtleties of the paradigm that tend to be overlooked in the speedy twelve-week OO programming course that gets thrown at ... http://danielbray.com/blog/coding/object-oriented-programming-rarer-than-you-think/