Twain scanning with Delphi 2009

March 2nd, 2010

Having spent some time with porting scanning application from Delphi 6 to 2009, I want to share with some working twain code. I used very well written component DelphiTwain with some modifications to run in Delphi 2009.

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Ping monitoring

February 25th, 2010

While searching for simple DSL line monitoring tool I found nothing really simple and decent. My goal is to hunt down internet connectivity instability. Since I have linux box inside, it is very easy to achieve.

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Google Apps Premier federated login with PHP

February 1st, 2010

Google supports OpenID authentication or behaves as openid identity provider, using Google Apps accounts. Basically it means, user can use GA credentials to sign in into different services. This is especially useful for companies to unite other internal services with Google Apps single sign-in point. This is related to Standard edition as well.

I have got it working for PHP. Here is the story.

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Bukovel skiing

January 19th, 2010

Ну вот и закончился зимний отдых. В этом году получилось сумбурно, без планирования. Хотели в поехать в Румынию, но из-за проблем с визой отправились в Карпаты на Украину. В город Яремча(Yaremche) с катанием в Буковеле(Bukovel).

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AdvMan

January 18th, 2010

AdvMan – Advertisement Manager, application for adv company to help planning of commercial spots on TV, radio, newspaper.

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Happy New Year, 2010!

January 3rd, 2010

God bless us!

2010

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Либрусек

December 30th, 2009

Неожиданно перестало качаться. Жаль, очень хорошая библиотека. За последние годы я прочел наверное столько же, сколько и до Ж). Благодаря либрусеку.

Для тех кто еще в танке, все на флибусту. http://flibusta.net/

PHP logging using Javascript/HackerConsole

December 2nd, 2009

Every PHP developer faces script debug issues. Simple way of var_dump variable content to HTML is of course the simplest but not convenient. It crashes site design and is not suitable for large amount of data.

I’d like to advertise nice tool to solve this issue. HackerConsole by dkLab, it is simple, fast and easy to use.

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SOCKS proxy server with SSH

November 26th, 2009

SSH protocol and openssh are full of features. It is not just remote terminal program.

You probably know about static port forwarding, local and remote. It allows to map local port to any host via SSH gateway or map incoming port on SSH gateway to local one. It is very useful in some situations. But what is dynamic port forwarding ?

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Launchy – handy application launcher

November 22nd, 2009

Windows “Start menu” is not something suitable for daily usage. MS has a long history to make it better, to complete failure in Vista, complex and unusable. Many other launchers were invented during this time with buttons/toolbars/bookmarks. All of it should make program launching more pleasant, but it does not.

Here comes Launchy.

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