Perl
Visual Basic
Cold Fusion
Perl
Archive Logs - Script authored for zipping web files on a regular basis.
Check Login - CGI script that validates a password to permit access to a restricted site.
Extirpate - Utility that allows you to scan folders for text strings and confirm replacements. Written to make area code changes on a site with more than 50,000 pages.
Help Desk - Web application that allows members of a team to log what they are working on, issues and notes. This is proof of concept code that was revised in Cold Fusion.
Move Files - Script authored for moving web server log files from many sites to one, for easy compiling of statistics.
PWN - A script that notifies users when their password has expired. For unix.
Team-Portal - CGI scripts for sharing documents over the web. Check in/out feature to allow for some modest version control.
Visual Basic
Docsearch - Written in preparation for an enterprise migration to Office 2000, this program searches a hard drive for office documents and copies them to a user drive.
ODBC INI - Visual Basic 4 for DOS. A compliment piece to a reg key, this program was written to execute in a script, with the purpose of adding an ODBC connection in someone's computer. Copy the entries you need out of a computer that has the correct ODBC connections set up and export the necessary registry keys. Then run this program in a batch file, or as a shell call from a visual basic program.
Sender - Written for use in a Windows NT/200 network, this program allows a novice user to send messages. To control who could use this utility, the program checks the users permission on a networked file. To change rights to which user could broadcast with Sender, simply change the permission on the flag file.
Encoder - Ever wonder if it was hard to come up with your own encryption? This is a super basic sample, but it does the job, and with a bit of coding, you can expand the encryption however you wish.
Message - Written as a sign on message that displays when users log on to the network. Edit the message as you like, compile the executable, copy the VB5 dll into your netlogon folder, and you're in business.
Pkeeper - Tabbed password storage utility that allows you to access your password list by clicking on an icon in the system tray.
VBScan - Utility that allows you to scan your file system for particular file types and text strings. This version is set up to scan for vbs file email viruses.
Geminus - Utility for copying files at regular intervals.
N2IE - Utility for converting netscape bookmarks to Internet Explorer favorites. Designed to run stand alone or in a login script.
Favors - Example of how to programmatically create a folder with the system attribute.
NewName - Ever use a lot of DOS boot floppies in a MS workgroup network? Notice how each computer name (and boot disk) can be used only once? This utility runs in the login script of a boot disk, and randomly changes computer network names in the system ini. Great for multicasting.
PC - Good utility to leave in the network path for your helpdesk. User can hit start, run, and type 'PC' to tell the helpdesk what their computer name, IP address, etc. is. This version also creates a file on the network that allows a helpdesk that uses SMS to take control of the user's PC.
ShowBM - Another helpdesk utility like PC, this program checks a user's SMS installation. It pulls information from the WBEM computer management repository.
HomeCD - Application that creates a nice startup window to launch programs from a CD. An example autorun.inf file is also included.
Last Updated 12/2004