When I first started this blog I said I would never post snippets or documentation that wasn't full. I am however stumped on a problem and just wanted to throw my solution out there for any others also experiencing it.

For the past 2 months a friend and I have been working on a site (www.famousfoodfinder.com) that would allow users to search for famous restaurants. The idea initially came from the fact that I love food and have been considering traveling around the US for quite some time.

The other day I had the need to communicate with an Oracle Database server remotely. Looking online took me to a few sources and forum threads before I actually had a 100% complete installation working. Hopefully this will serve as a complete resource for installing and configuring what is needed to get the OCI libraries working with PHP5.

Class has started again (last semester), so my time is once again sparce, but I am happy to say that I have one main project in the pipeline that is currently recieving a lot of my attention. I will not be releasing any details about the project yet, but it should hopefully be running in the next month or so.

It has been 2 weeks since the posting mentioning that Carrier Pigeon would be released. Today marks the day of an official 2 week period and you can now access the tools by clicking here.

After creating a couple modules in Drupal I noticed that I was using a lot of the same code and began copying certain functions from each module. Before I could use the function I would have to walk through and change all the names and little details to make the module work.

If interested, you can find all the Defcon 17 related material at http://www.g2-inc.com/information-defcon-17

One thing I noticed in the Drupal community was that there was no module that displayed all the users for a site in a tree type structure. I needed something like this for an employee directory, but found nothing close to what I needed within the already available Drupal modules.

Abstract information here:
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-17/dc-17-speakers.html#Dixon

I haven't released too much information on the Carrier Pigeon project, but that was due to the nature of the vulnerabilities identified. Though they are small, they can pack a big punch and I did not want to reveal the information without first giving vendors the heads up.