Sunday, November 1, 2009

Server Name Indicator

Something to think about next time when deploying servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication


Noticed Google App hosting doesn't support it now.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Hello World in Android

What do you get when you put a hot weather , a bored programmer and a bottle of tequila together?

You get hello world in Android!

Downloaded the bunch of dev kits, Eclipse IDE (bye bye Netbeans) and read the docs from Google.

Here's the result!



Sunday, July 5, 2009

Regular Expressions on a rainy Sunday afternoon

Since it's raining and there's nothing much to do outdoors I've began coding the portion of the code to parse Subject of an smtp mail to check for magic code for my pidgin plugin. Revisiting some rusty regexp knowledge.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Nmake 1.5 doesn't work on 64bit Win7

grrrr.

Replacement is http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/

Hope it works

Saturday, June 27, 2009

S/MIME for Windows Mobile

Some reading up to do.

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/windowsmobile-smime.html

Gmail has POP3 too?

I didn't know that. Guess I shouldn't have signed up for hotmail if I could POP using gmail...
Switching to IMAP, LiveMail POP3 has connection limitation, you can't poll every 5 mins for hotmail.

Ran into an issue with my CPAN as documented here

More Perl stuff

Done with the SMTP code for pidgin, now writing the script for checking live.com pop3 email.
Doing an upgrade to the CPAN module and then installing Mail::Message( yes to everything). I need this to read MIME messages.



CPAN install failed:
Appending installation info to C:\Perl\lib/perllocal.pod
PLOBBES/Mail-IMAPClient-3.19.tar.gz
nmake install -- OK
Running install for module 'IO::Scalar'
Running make for D/DS/DSKOLL/IO-stringy-2.110.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL/IO-stringy-2.110.tar.g

Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
'C:\Perl\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_sv) at C:\Perl\lib/YAML/XS.pm line 70.

Going to snag a copy from: