I took a picture [Southampton Edition]

Southampton Docks, Southampton, UK

i took a picture [Stinky Cheese edition]

Tower de Eiffel, Paris, France (Crappy Kodak)

Brute forcing Router passwords

Someone in my house decided to change the password of the router. We share the access with about 10+ people, not all of whom i know so simply asking wasn't really an option. So like any normal person, i searched the internet and found a python script that does HTTP Auth brute forcing. The Indentation was out of whack, so once i fixed it, i thought i ought to share it with everyone.


If you do want to use it yourselves, you'll need a wordlist, which you can find with google's help.

I took picture [Train Station Edition]

Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York, NY

i took a picture [Rastaman edition]

Montego Bay, Jamaica 2011

Making UIImages with blocks

So i was going to post about something completely different today, but as i was typing i looked at my code, and thought it was verbose and a little bit ugly.

So i made it awesome, and as everyone knows to make your code awesome you add some blocks to it.

My problem was simple, i was faced with the need to create two CGBitmapContext, for the uniformed the following code is required to prepare a bitmap context for drawing.


So after a bit of thought, i decided what i really wanted was a method that did all of this for me, and meant that i didn't have to worry about constantly checking the code for leaks (DRY), and that was pleasant to look at and i came up with the above. The block that you pass in is given a fully formed CGBitmapContext, and the method returns a UIImage generated from that context. Almost like a UIView/CALayer.



So now your thinking, "Yeah, thats cool, but why the [INSERT FOUR LETTER WORD] would i want to use it ?" Well young grasshopper, have you ever wanted to mask a image in code? You know to do those trendy rounded corners ... well yes you can use CALayer's however the idea of using those off the main thread makes me uneasy, and we all know the cool kids do things in the background.


The above actually creates a rounded rect on the fly, and masks the image with it. It's made to be used in a category on UIImage. But look closer, yep thats right kids, no boiler plate, ZERO, NADA, 另, SQUAT (i think you get the point)!

I should take a moment to mention that the awesome code for the rounded rect comes from the awesome Oliver Drobnik, i have the utmost respect for this guy, not just for this snippet, but if you've ever seen his Rich text label and it's associated projects, you'll understand why real soon.

I took a picture [Silicon Valley Edition]

Palo Alto, CA 2011