Sending signed e-mails using php

Last term we had to build a “secure” website. This included using SSL/https and signed e-mails.
Since we were going to build a website and I’m an experienced PHP web developer we decided to go to work with PHP. This gave us a small problem, how do we sign e-mail messages using PHP. Using multiple how-to’s and tutorials I was able to figure it out. Helping others being able to find it quicker I’m writing yet another tutorial hoping to help people to get it working in an hour instead of a few days. In this tutorial I’m not going into details about creating certificates and keys to use, I’ll only talk about how to sign emails using PHP. I will include some quirks you could encounter when using Xampp or some other form of apache on windows.

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Published on 11 March 2012 14:47.
Filed under: Programming, School, Tech, Webdevelopment Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

The cave project

So I have been talking about the Cave project a while ago. And I promised to give more information about it, in this post I will tell a little bit more about the project and the outcome.

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Published on 13 February 2012 19:46.
Filed under: Random

Hanze mail in Windows Live mail 2011

After posting the how to for getting hanze mail in a mail client I recieved a lot of comments on how to do this in windows live mail. So here is the how to to get Hanze mail in windows live mail 2011.

1. go to the accounts window, options button left side top of the window-> options-> email accounts
2. press the add button
3. Select E-mail account.
4.  fill in your hanze mail adres, i.e. somename.somelastname@st.hanze.nl, your password, your real name and select the manual server configuration box.
5. now you will see the serverconfiguration screen. This screen looks complicated but I’ll try to talk you through it.

  1. set the servertype select box to IMAP
  2. bellow the servertype selectbox fill in webmail.hanze.nl as server adress
  3. set port number to 993
  4. Select the secure connection(SSL) select box
  5. Select password verification in the verification select box
  6. fill in your username which is not the same as your email adress. For students this is the student number and for teachers the 4 letter code.
  7. on the righthand side of the screen is the part for outgoing mail. Set this to the out going mail server of your internet provider for example ziggo uses smtp.ziggo.nl on port 2

press next and there you have it.

Published on 13 January 2012 18:59.
Filed under: Random, School, Tech

Folding bike

As some people might know I ride a folding bike. This is because it’s free to take with you in the train and it’s a lot quicker as riding the bus from the station to college.
My first folding bike was/is a Ventos folding bike as shown below. It’s a prety good bike but after me abusing it for nearly 2 years now it starts to twist and bend.
Already had a broken securing pin and the chain tends to run of a lot.

The replacement:

It’s a Beixo compact  a folding bike without a chain. It uses a cardan shaft to transfer the energy from the pedals to the wheel.
This should be a maintanance free system and also it is no longer possible to have a lose chain.
I’ll probably get the Beixo this week and hope to review it next week.

Published on 9 January 2012 19:43.
Filed under: Random, School

End of the year

So nearing the end of the year. really can’t understand where time went. What will I do next year to make more posts on the site? I’m going to figure out how to get hanze mail working in windowslive mail, write about Tilaa.nl my new host; I realy like it, Talk about Whisky my new found passion and probably will tell more about the Cave project I am working on and talk about my trip to Kraków. So see you next year.

Published on 24 December 2011 18:53.
Filed under: Random

Moved the website.

As some might have notiched but hopefully no-one has I have moved the website to a new host. For some reasons I have decided to change host. Those reasons will be explained a little in the next part of this post.

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Published on 20 November 2011 20:30.
Filed under: Random

Sponsoring

After introducing Google Adsense to the site I have also decided to add an option to donate. If you think an article was helpfull and you want to have more articles be so free to sponsor me. The money raised will be used to support the website and writing articles or to buy beers/whisky if there is some left over

Published on 3 November 2011 20:48.
Filed under: Random

How to change Notification/ SMS ringtone on andriod

In this post I’ll explain how to get mp3′s as notification or sms tone on an andriod phone. This is a relative easy and fast job but just one you need to know. Details »

Published on 3 November 2011 20:10.
Filed under: Mobile, Random, Tech Tags: , , ,

Google adsense

People might notice big open space, at time of writing, or Google ads on the site. well yes I have signed up for Google adsense to see if I can generate a little money to keep this site on-line. I hope they are not to annoying.

Published on 11 October 2011 19:27.
Filed under: Random, Tech, Webdevelopment

Internet problems in van Dooren Veste

Some people might have noticed, probably a lot of people, at the start of this school year the network of the van Dooren Veste was not working like it should. Let me give a quick overview of what happend.

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Published on 8 October 2011 13:36.
Filed under: School

What’s going on…

So it has been quite here for a while. That’s because I haven’t had time to blog or when I had time there was no inspiration to blog.

So what have I been bussy with:

  • Getting back to school and getting used to the ritme, not much to talk about there
  • Started with the HonoursProgram and got my first project assigned, will talk about that later.
  • Trying multiple Linux distro’s also will talk more about this later.
  • Trying to get some work for my business

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Published on 23 September 2011 11:59.
Filed under: Random

Offline

Well apparently I was off-line this weekend. For some reason the website didn’t respond for some time but now its back up and live again

Published on 23 August 2011 20:10.
Filed under: Random

So I passed my first year

First of all yes I am happy that I passed my first year. But that is not what this post is about or maybe its a little bit about it.

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Published on 16 July 2011 16:36.
Filed under: School

Interesting thoughts

So this post has been waiting on me to write it since the 30th of may…
I have been thinking of making this post about a lot of things but instead
I will make a few more posts about those subjects. In this post I want to talk about
how the processes laid upon developers kill their passion and their creativity. Details »

Published on 30 May 2011 20:20.
Filed under: Random, Tech

Hanze mail in mail client

So in this blog it’s about getting Hanze mail into a mail client. So basically if you are no student or teacher at Hanze Hogeschool this post is not for you .
For those who are still reading, you might have noticed that there is no standard way to get mail into a mail client.
This post will show you how to get the mail into a mail client. To bad you can’t send mail from it that still has to be done via webmail.

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Published on 11 May 2011 20:20.
Filed under: Random

.cseg error in assembly

Today i had an error in AVR studio about a .cseg overlap. namely Overlap in .cseg: addr=0x1c conflicts with 0x1c:0x1d.
After passing this error through Google I wasn’t able to find a solution only that is was related to a memory address being reused.
Since this problem was part of a school assignment due in a few days I decided to consult my teacher. Apparently fellow students had had the same problem.
When using assembly on an ATMega32 cpu do not change the interrupt table. This will cause a .cseg error after the break more info.

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Published on 18 April 2011 20:04.
Filed under: Embeded, School, Tech Tags: , , ,

Migrating magento

This is a quick guide on how to migrate Magento.
After the break there are the steps to be taken and after that a note for virtual drives. Details »

Published on 8 April 2011 22:32.
Filed under: Magento, Tech, Webdevelopment Tags: ,

Welcome

Well yet another new layout for the site.

Still not actively blogging I hope to change that with all the subjects I still can blog about.
At the moment I want to write an article about migrating Magento to a new server, how to create a lcd for a stk500 board in 4 bit mode and talk about some of the school projects I did.

Published on 8 April 2011 12:41.
Filed under: Random