How to install and configure Roundcube

Posted by Raffael on 12/12/201412/12/2014 Posted in Linux, PHP, Tutorials Tagged how to install roundcube, How to install Roundcube on Ubuntu server, how to setup your own webmail, Roundcube, roundcube installation guide, Roundcube tutorial, webmail

how to install roundcube Today we’ll be talking about installing the webmail client Roundcube on your website or web server. However, before we begin I’d like to say a few words about why a webmail client is a good idea in the first place and why I decided to use Roundcube. If you’re just interested in the installation procedure, you can skip directly to the next paragraph (“Basic requirements”).
Why install a webmail client? I can answer that question only for me and my specific case. I have several email addresses – one is a Gmail address and the others are addresses for my websites and blogs that all have the format @website-name.net.
So when I want to see my emails, I don’t want to open five different websites and three programs. I’d like for everything to be in one […]

Manipulate any program by using C#

Posted by Raffael on 12/04/2014 Posted in C#.Net, Tutorials Tagged .NET, C#, C# Message Hook, C# unmanaged code, C# Windows Hooks, manipulate programs with C#

Manipulate any program by using Csharp This article is going to be all about how you can control, customize and extend other programs using C#. As an example scenario we’re going to be extending the default Windows program Notepad with a custom function.
The C# application will modify all running instances of Notepad by adding a new button to the UI and listening for clicks on the button. A click on the button will convert the text in the Notepad text field into HTML using a Markdown parser (What is Markdown?) and display the HTML in our application.
If you follow the article, the finished product is going to look like this:

The article will have you construct the program step by step. If you want to read […]

How to use C# Web Service Client with BasicAuth (for SAP)

Posted by Raffael on 08/05/201411/04/2017 Posted in C#.Net, SAP, Tutorials Tagged .net web service basic authentication, ABAP, BasicAuth, C#, c# web service basic authentication, SAP, SAP Web Services, SAP Web Services BasicAuth, soap basic authentication, WSDL

SAP Webservice with .NET Webservice Client and BasicAuth No matter how frumpy SAP may look most of the time, nevertheless you can build such modern things like web services inside the SAP system. Even the WSDL (Web Service Description File) file can be generated in SAP. I read about this feature (WSDL generation) just at the right time, because recent days I should write a web service in SAP which should be triggered by a C# application.
In .NET web services can easily integrated via their WSDL file by using the WebReference feature of Visual Studio. Therefore Visual Studio generates a so-called proxy class from the given WSDL file which can be used to call all functions of the webservice without thinking too much.
As far as in theory. In practice I had to choose the security mode for the web service in […]

How to use alias for using-directives and namespaces in C#

Posted by Raffael on 08/03/2014 Posted in C#.Net Tagged aliasing namespace, C#, c# alias, c# class alias, c# namespace alias, using directive alias

Anyone who has already written one or the other program in Visual Studio with C# probably knows the following problem. Sometimes you use different libraries (Dlls) from different developers/vendors. Partly also libraries that fulfill similar purposes. This might go well, but it doesn’t have to.
Often you will get confronted with an error message like this: “‘XYZ’ is an ambiguous reference between ‘LibraryA.XYZ’ and ‘LibraryB.XYZ’”
What next? In the following I’ll explain how to solve this kind of error by taking the example of the AForge library. For instance we profess that we included the following using-directives into our program.
using System.Drawing;
using AForge.Imaging;
So now, if we use the class “Image” in our program, we will see the following error message, which result from the fact that there are two “Image” classes referenced. One in the System.Drawing namespace as also one in the AForge.Drawing namespace. Visual Studio (and later on it’s compiler) doesn’t know which Image class to […]

Benchmark: strtotime() vs DateTime vs getTimestamp in PHP

Posted by Raffael on 12/19/2013 Posted in PHP Tagged benchmark, comparison strtotime Datetime, DateTime, DateTime vs strtotime, getTimestamp, PHP, strtotime, strtotime performance, Timestamp

Recently I wrote about how one can implement date comparison in PHP. In the article I presented two approaches. Firstly, using the strtotime() method and another with the DateTime class.
Then, in the comments on the german division of this blog, it was pointed out that the strtotime() variant is probably faster. Because I wasn’t sure about this, I decided to make a small performance test and share the results with you in this article.
How did I test the performance?

Since the question aims on strtotime() vs. DateTime, the DateTime class is contrary to the strtotime() function. So because DateTime class offers more functionality, I had first to create the DateTime object and then get the timestamp of it, because the strtotime function gives a timestamp as return value and I wanted to compare the time needed to generate the identical output.
As input I have taken a date without a custom time […]