Coding

If you have ever had to deal with long hours coding large drop-down menus for various different reasons, then you know finding a better solution isn't far after those first 20 lines. When programming a scheduling application last year, I realized that I didn't want to rely on an employee to know the date format for the database, or even what the current day was. Instead of coding lines upon lines of "select" boxes, and hoping that people would soon learn these simple facts, I decided to create a PHP function to create a dummy-proof Date/Time drop-down menu. Feel free to use this all you want, just always remember where you obtained this code.

Later, I will update this page with the version that automatically reduces the day list depending on the month, and if it is a leap year. Stay tuned!

One thing that always bothered me about OpenVPN was the work you had to do to get one client setup. It wasn't a hard process, but when configuring multiple clients, it was always a very monotonous job, and quite annoying. So, to resolve this issue, I wrote a script to create the keys, certificates, package the needed client files, and then put them in a directory specifically for client packages. This way, you can build the key, give the package to the client, and be done with it. To add, you can also revoke clients from the same script, just to make it complete.

ASM has always been a weak-point of mine, and so I thought I would persue it more. Unfortunately, almost any tutorial was quite vague, and really wasn't telling me much. They would tell me how syntax would work, and what you were doing on the machine level, but never what you were really doing, or trying to accomplish. Shortly after going through a bunch of these tutorials, I more or less gave up. After a few hours of working on a new project, ASM snuck it's way in, and a lot of it started to make sense.