Skype - Programming Chat Group (For Anyone)

[Peter]

Hello,

I know there are some people here that are keen on learning to program. I've seen a few posts from people, and had the odd message asking for help and advice. So I thought, instead of it just being me helping the person, it would be a good idea for a group of us to get on Skype once or twice a week and help each other out. This goes for anyone that is keen on programming, regardless of what area you are interested in, or experience.

I am hoping that a few other experienced programmers jump in on the chat to help answer some questions, and maybe even ask some themselves.  I know a few that have already expressed interest in this, so that's a good start.

FAQ:

• Who's it for?
• Do I need a mic?
• What day and time?

If this interests you:

- Post or PM your skype username to me or someone who can add you to the chat on Skype.
- Post your experience (i.e beginner).
- Post the languages that you are keen on learning / improving.
- Post the languages that you consider to be proficient in.
- Post the day and time (GMT if possible so I don't need to work every ones out) that suits you.


If this gets any replies with people interested, I'll add them to a list below with some details, that way, you can all contact each other to share Skype details.


People so far:

Jua?
CåñåÐå™
Stern
@tidus90
Bob
Wormopolis
wildgoosespeeder
pawl
Graham
DarkPikachu
Pebble

[Pebble]

Count me in, I've got a ton of questions!
I'll get some details sent of to you later today.

[Former Member]

Post or PM your skype username to me or someone who can add you to the chat on Skype.
darkmage09

- Post your experience (i.e beginner).
Intermediate. (OH! and I've looked into Sha1 and using it now. )

- Post the languages that you are keen on learning / improving.
Improvement on PHP. (Currently building a forum)

- Post the languages that you consider to be proficient in.
HTML/CSS xD But I'm doing better than before on PHP.

- Post the day and time (GMT if possible so I don't need to work every ones out) that suits you.
Any time is fine with me.

[CåñåÐå™]

I 've sent an pm to you.

-experience: beginner.

[Bob]

Mar 8, 2014 10:21:57 GMT -8 @tidus90 said:

Post or PM your skype username to me or someone who can add you to the chat on Skype.
darkmage09

- Post your experience (i.e beginner).
Intermediate. (OH! and I've looked into Sha1 and using it now. )

- Post the languages that you are keen on learning / improving.
Improvement on PHP. (Currently building a forum)

- Post the languages that you consider to be proficient in.
HTML/CSS xD But I'm doing better than before on PHP.

- Post the day and time (GMT if possible so I don't need to work every ones out) that suits you.
Any time is fine with me.     

SHA-1 is no longer a favored cryptographic hash function.  In the very least I would recommend using the SHA-2 family (SHA-256/SHA-512).


<?php

// Create a new hashed password
$pass = hash('sha512', $appSalt . $plaintextPassword);

// Check an existing
if ($pass === $storedPassword) {
 // Success
}
Or, if you are running PHP 5.5.x then bcrypt is very easily implemented (and preferable, in my opinion).


<?php

// Create a new hashed password
$pass = password_hash($plaintextPassword, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

// Check for password validity
if (password_verify($plaintextPassword, $storedPass)) {
   // Success
}
The one caveat with the bcrypt example is that is may not be the default hash in future versions of PHP.  For this reason you could specifically use the bcrypt algorithm (PASSWORD_BCRYPT).  Or, you could just verify the hashing algorithm is up to date upon login (when you have the plaintext password readily available) and, if it isn't, rehash and store the password.

Either way, some pertinent links for you:

password_hash()
password_verify()
hash()

[Stern]

- Post or PM your skype username to me or someone who can add you to the chat on Skype.
Punktestern

- Post your experience (i.e beginner).
Beginner/(Intermediate?)

- Post the languages that you are keen on learning / improving.
HTML and CSS, although anything that's being discussed, I'll try to learn more about.

- Post the languages that you consider to be proficient in.
N/A

- Post the day and time (GMT if possible so I don't need to work every ones out) that suits you.
This Sunday - 4PM - 4AMish? With some random things in between, but anyway. (I'm in PST, hence the skewed times)
Other ones, I'm sadly not sure about yet, my schedule jumps one day to the next.

[Peter]

Ok, have added people to the first post and send skype requests. I have a friend that will likely be interested as well, so that's at least 8 of us.

So now it's a matter of working on a time and day that most will be on.

Please work out the best GMT times and post them, along with any days that you would prefer (even if you aren't sure)...

wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/


Tags: Jua?, Bob, @tidus90, CåñåÐå™, Stern, Pebble

[CåñåÐå™]

Whatever day and time should be fine for me.

[Former Member]

I'm open any time this week.

[Former Member]

Mar 9, 2014 5:13:32 GMT -8 CåñåÐå™ said:

Whatever day and time should be fine for me.

CANADA!!!! I have not seen you in forever!! (It's Darkmage from vF )

[CåñåÐå™]

Mar 9, 2014 11:13:15 GMT -8 @tidus90 said:

Mar 9, 2014 5:13:32 GMT -8 CåñåÐå™ said:

Whatever day and time should be fine for me.

CANADA!!!! I have not seen you in forever!! (It's Darkmage from vF )

I know when i saw Nick i wondered if it was you . What have you been up to?

[Former Member]

Mar 9, 2014 18:50:48 GMT -8 CåñåÐå™ said:

Mar 9, 2014 11:13:15 GMT -8 @tidus90 said:

CANADA!!!! I have not seen you in forever!! (It's Darkmage from vF )

I know when i saw Nick i wondered if it was you . What have you been up to?

lol, A lot has happened in 2 years. New gf, new everything. lol. Working on the same sites as before. But more advanced than before. Working on a new forum of my own, and working on a web host, along with an advertising directory, which I know you've seen before.

[wildgoosespeeder]

- If you know my ProBoards name, you know my Skype name.
- Advanced programming knowledge.
- C++ is something I want to do extremely well in. Maybe Java as a close second.
- C# I feel proficient. C++ not so much but I do know my way around the bits.
- 12PM - 2AM CST.

[Former Member]

Mar 8, 2014 17:12:18 GMT -8 Bob said:

Mar 8, 2014 10:21:57 GMT -8 @tidus90 said:

Post or PM your skype username to me or someone who can add you to the chat on Skype.
darkmage09

- Post your experience (i.e beginner).
Intermediate. (OH! and I've looked into Sha1 and using it now. )

- Post the languages that you are keen on learning / improving.
Improvement on PHP. (Currently building a forum)

- Post the languages that you consider to be proficient in.
HTML/CSS xD But I'm doing better than before on PHP.

- Post the day and time (GMT if possible so I don't need to work every ones out) that suits you.
Any time is fine with me.     

SHA-1 is no longer a favored cryptographic hash function.  In the very least I would recommend using the SHA-2 family (SHA-256/SHA-512).


<?php

// Create a new hashed password
$pass = hash('sha512', $appSalt . $plaintextPassword);

// Check an existing
if ($pass === $storedPassword) {
 // Success
}
Or, if you are running PHP 5.5.x then bcrypt is very easily implemented (and preferable, in my opinion).


<?php

// Create a new hashed password
$pass = password_hash($plaintextPassword, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

// Check for password validity
if (password_verify($plaintextPassword, $storedPass)) {
   // Success
}
The one caveat with the bcrypt example is that is may not be the default hash in future versions of PHP.  For this reason you could specifically use the bcrypt algorithm (PASSWORD_BCRYPT).  Or, you could just verify the hashing algorithm is up to date upon login (when you have the plaintext password readily available) and, if it isn't, rehash and store the password.

Either way, some pertinent links for you:

password_hash()
password_verify()
hash()

So instead of: $password = mysql_real_escape_string(sha1($_POST['password']));

I put: $password = mysql_real_escape_string(sha512($_POST['password'])); evertime I do that, it grays out in NP++ and isn't blue anymore.

[Wormopolis]

I guess this is prompting me to finally create a skype account...