I've been looking at methods for secure IMAP connectivity using courier-imap. I need a certificate along with a full set of parent root certificates. I've already got all of these along with the private key in a java keystore that I use for authenticating Tomcat/Catalina hosts. So instead of creating the pem file I needed from scratch I looked around for methods of exporting what I already had.

After some trial and error I came across

http://sourceforge.net/projects/portecle/

It provides a Java based GUI that I pointed at my keystore file, provided the password and up it all came. I was able to export the private key as a .pem with all of the tiers of authority in single text file. Perfect.

To get the pem working using courier-imap I created a sym link to imapd.pem. in the courier-imap shared directory. Restarted the courier-imap service and away we go.

If you want to test an imap certificate try:
# openssl s_client -connect hostname:993

(Port 993 is the standard IMAP over SSL port)

I've just put Blackwood Labs' new website live. I took a static html website designed by a third party and Drupal'ised it. I think that it looks good and works well.

There are a couple of extra modules above and beyond the standard Drupal installation. The Content Construction Kit was used to create a new type of content type for customer comments. The front module was used to generate a bespoke front page that doesn't follow the structure of the rest of the website. Taxonomy was used to group the pages on the site into categories, these categories being used to theme the menus, graphics and comment blocks that are displayed on each page.

So without further ado...

http://www.blackwood-labs.co.uk/

I've re-created http://mobile.garan.org/ so that it looks okay on a PDA/phone browser. It's just the central content of this page without the side bars and is based on the http://drupal.org/project/zen theme. Zen is meant to be a good theme to use as a starting block for building my own theme.. Just need some time.

Been working on Mark's website this weekend. I'm trying to make it do things that were completely out of scope of the original project.

It's ramming home that a requirements spec is important even when it's a 'quick site for a mate'.

Oh and it's also ramming home that there's no such things as a 'quick site for a mate'.

The original website was a couple of pages with a login facility that users could access to download files. It's a long way from that now..

Not quite sure how long it's been missing. Probably about a year!

http://mobile.garan.org/

If the battery in my iPaq lasted long enough to turn it on, I'd test it :)