[ Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 ]

What’s up guys?

Welcome to part two of the Python control server series.

In the first part of the series we made a simple plaintext control server. It allows you to run commands and control your systems from a distance.

This time we’re stepping it up and adding AES encryption to it.

Traffic Encryption

Since the plan is to eventually add more functionality to our server such as file transfer and reading documents over public networks, traffic encryption is definitely essential to the project.

Imagine you are downloading a file from your computer at home to your laptop using a hotel’s public wireless connection. It’s hard to feel safe about it without using some form of encryption.

For this and other reasons, we’ll be using pyAesCrypt to encrypt the connection to our server using AES both ways (server and client).

I have a few posts already on the topic. One specifically for recursive file encryption and another for encrypted data over the network.

This time, however, we’ll be using in-memory encryption stream to make sure our connection is safe from the server to the client and vice versa.

[ Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 ]

What’s going on guys?

We’re off to another series: Python Control Server.

Yes, there’s three series going on at once in the blog, so what! 😀

I like having multiple things going so that I don’t have to think much whenever I have some free time to code. I can just sit down and choose whichever series/project to work on at the moment.

Anyway, many people emailed me to post my old videos (from like 10 years ago) from this same series – written in Python 2.X.

However, with Python 2.X reaching end of life in January 2020, I figure: Why not just redo the whole thing in Python 3?

It’s also worth mentioning that some of the libraries I used back then have not been properly ported over to Python 3. Overall it just makes a lot of sense to redo the project using more current libraries.

Control Server

Why make a Python Control Server?

For many (ahem, very educational) reasons of course! Like for example, we are two days away from Christmas and many people enjoy taking vacations around this time. Well, why not setup a nice control server to have access to your systems while your away?

Sounds like a good idea time to me!

About Christmas though, I had my first batch of family visiting and let me tell you… its rather easy to get a cold when there’s a lot of people in the same household for hours at a time. So pardon my voice in the video.

What’s going on guys?

I got a nice and short tutorial this time for coding a time-lapse wallpaper using Python 3 – kind of like a customizable live wallpaper.

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you might remember of a Python background changer for dual monitors I made a while back.

Well, this tutorial is kind of building up on that post. Remember, if you just want to download the files, head down to the end of the post.

Time-lapse Wallpaper

Now that pretty much any smartphone already comes with built-in time-lapse features in their cameras and software, I thought:

“Wouldn’t it be cool to have a little script to instantly turn any time-lapses into a wallpaper? That can’t be too difficult!” 😀

That is basically the story for this video tutorial.

It turns out, it wasn’t too difficult after all, just about ~40 lines of code in Python 3 – with some comments here and there, so maybe even 30ish.

[ Part 1 (Introduction) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 ]

Howdy! How you doing today?

Welcome to another series of videos!

This time we’re diving into hybrid applications with Ionic 4.

We’ll be developing a simple card matching game that you can run in many different platforms like: Android, Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) and basically anything that runs HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I’m always excited to learn new technologies and of course, share the knowledge with you guys in my path moving forward. But why Ionic?

Ionic Framework

With the explosion of smartphones and mobile applications of this decade, there had to be new developments for programmers as well. Why?

Well, imagine that programmers would have to learn how to make applications for Android, then for Apple devices, then Microsoft products and the list goes on… something had to be done.

It turns out that hybrid applications would make our lives incredibly easier by allowing programmers to use a single codebase for applications.

All thanks to frameworks like Ionic, among others, usually JavaScript-based.

Now that you know more about the framework and its capabilities, let’s take a look at the required software for this project.

[ Part 1 (Overview) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 ]

Welcome to my blog’s first tutorial series!

Hey guys! Ready to write some code?

We’ve put a lot of work in these past five parts and today is no exception, however, we’ll try to take it easy after that insanity in the last article.

Looking back I probably should’ve broken that last article in more parts. At the same time, I guess it serves to separate the kittens from the lions. 😀

Enough jokes for now, let’s keep moving…

Today we’ll be implementing the second part to the text-based user interface which is what I call the active client chat screen.

Of course this also requires us to first implement the logging system for all of our clients, along with notifications as well.

Besides that we’ll add a few more features to wrap it up.

Dive Into The Code

I’m gonna focus on the main blocks of code added this time, so right off the bat, let’s jump into the new ‘active client chat screen’ interface…