Author Archives: Allan Bogh

Allan Bogh

About Allan Bogh

I'm an Active Directory consultant, programmer, web developer, database developer, and tinkerer. I am also the administrator of The Open Code Project. I created and moderate r/ActiveDirectory and, am the primary developer of Reddit Uppers and Downers Enhanced (a part of RES). I also have a love of robotics, working with the Arduino platform.

Sample Projects:

  • ImgAlbum - ImgAlbum is a picture album website that includes speedy image delivery using custom GD2 PHP code and folder/subfolder traversal. Other album websites such as Picasa don't include sub-albums or subfolder uploads, so I am developing my own system where a user can upload an entire folder structure full of images and the system will automatically process the images to create albums.

  • Reddit Uppers and Downers Enhanced - Lead developer, improved speed significantly, incorporated other developers' additions with attribution, project is a part of RES and is used by tens of thousands of people every day.

  • RE/Max Properties website - Created MLS replication system, pulling NWMLS XML records using PHP. Created a Google Maps interface to display NWMLS results on the website (no longer in use). Before leaving I created a home value calculator based on the MLS data and make the website into a template system for agents.

  • Stealth Media Solutions - A website and graphic design company that I used to work for. The website was designed by our designer, I implemented the code with rudimentary means compared to the frameworks available today.

  • Photography Plus - Another design of Stealth Media Solutions. This website includes a WYSIWYG editor for the owner to modify pages. It uses PHP, and Flash.

  • Highpointe Church - Flash PoC. Highpointe Church wanted a proof of concept design from Stealth Media Solutions. Our designer made it and I created the webpage in Flash. The customer was very specific about using Flash, although it may not have been the most flexible choice. Custom javascript was developed to resize the background image dynamically (worked best in Firefox and IE).

JSON Parsing Function for Shell Scripts

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When testing REST-based web services that return JSON you may decide to use a shell script with cURL commands. Some services require a call to authorize a client and a second call to perform some action. In these cases, you would need to store the returned information in variables to use in subsequent calls. This is only a simple example of why you would want a shell script to parse JSON and return a value, but the usefulness of a JSON parser goes beyond a simple example like this.

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A simple c++ string replace function

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I’ve been privileged by higher-level language string functions, such as PHP’s easy to use str_replace function, that I’ve forgotten how performing such simple tasks in lower-level languages like C++ can be such a hassle. Aside from using some library (of which I’m not aware yet), here’s a simple string replace function which is similar to the PHP version. In this case the function will directly modify the original string, not return an instance of a new string.

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Dynamically Modifying Input Elements on Click

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Sometimes it’s necessary to modify an input form element when a user clicks on that element. In some cases, the form element can contain information regarding what information is appropriate, or what format is expected. The most common example is showing “mm/dd/yyyy” in a text-based date field and automatically removing that information when a user clicks on the field.

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Javascript Benchmarking with JSBenchtest

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Javascript benchmarking couldn’t be easier. With this webpage you can input any Javascript code and test how fast it is. The webpage will automatically call your code for 1,000,000 iterations and report the total amount of time that it took to execute. It will even output a variable that you can use for debugging. You can now test an algorithm, make a modification, and test again to see if the modification helped the execution time.

Click here to benchmark some code.

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Switch vs If – Which is faster?

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In programming there are two different methods that people use to test variables that have a number of different values. One method is to use the If statement and define blocks of code to perform. The other common method is to use a switch statement and list all possible values, perhaps including a default value, and perform some process inside the appropriate section of code.

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Glasir – an open source PHP/HTML5 media player

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Glasir is an open source PHP/HTML5 media player for a personal music collection of unlimited size. For use with Chrome, Firefox, and Android phones. It’s a project that I developed and open sourced for people to install it on their personal web servers and point it at a music folder.

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Saving a Failing Hard Drive with GNU/Linux

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I came to find out that my mother’s computer’s hard drive was failing. Programs took a long time to open and the computer would suddenly reboot for no reason. I discovered that the hard drive had bad sectors, which means potentially lost data if it decided to quit before I could save the data onto a different drive. Various GNU/Linux-based systems saved the day.

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How to Set Up an Ubuntu Active Directory Client

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Here I will explain a solution that worked for me to configure an Ubuntu workstation to authenticate with an Active Directory domain. The workstation was able to browse domain resources (ie, filesystem) without having to log in and it pulled the AD group information from the domain controller. A process was used to map certain groups to Linux (Ubuntu) groups, however extensive verification of the results could not be performed.

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