Creating Intellij Projects for SBT Projects

I'm currently working on an Open-Source Scala project and we have switched our build process from Maven2 to SBT or Simple Build Tool http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/. We've mainly done this as our project will be based on the Akka and the Lift framework which have also now switched to SBT.

SBT provides many of the features of Maven such as loading dependencies from remote repositories but is much simpler and the configuration is done in Scala rather than using messy xml files.

As part of this project I have found that JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition seems to be the best Scala IDE I have tried and also has an SBT plug-in. As a bonus SBT has an action which will generate an Intellij IDEA project file configured to work with SBT.

To use this, go to the root of your SBT project and type sbt to start sbt, then enter:

*sbtIdeaRepo at http://mpeltonen.github.com/maven/
*idea is com.github.mpeltonen sbt-idea-processor 0.1-SNAPSHOT
update
idea

This will generate the .ipr file which you can then use

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Update

Plug-ins are now stored globally in a $HOME/.sbt/plugins/build.sbt or C:\Documents and Settings\username\.sbt\plugins file which for this plugin the following contents should be added:

resolvers += "sbt-idea-repo" at "http://mpeltonen.github.com/maven/"

libraryDependencies += "com.github.mpeltonen" %% "sbt-idea" % "0.10.0"

Also the task is now called gen-idea

Note: In window use the command line to create a .sbt directory

See https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Plugins for more details

Decoding VBE and Re-Coding VBS Files

Based on original article here

Since 2003 Microsoft has provided a command line script encoder available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e7877f67-c447-4873-b1b0-21f0626a6329&DisplayLang=en This tool encodes the script so it can't be read by a casual user but is no protection against a determined hacker.

Usage:

screnc ScriptFile

Note: You will need to install the download and also add the directory to your path to use it.

If you have a vbe script which you need to view/edit use create a new .vbs file and add the following in it:

option explicit
Dim oArgs, txtFileName

'Optional argument : the encoded filename
txtFileName=""
Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments

Select Case oArgs.Count
Case 0 'No Arg, popup a dialog box to choose the file
txtFileName=BrowseForFolder("Choose an encoded file", &H4031, &H0011)
Case 1
If Instr(oArgs(0),"?")=0 Then '-? ou /? => aide
txtFileName=oArgs(0)
End If
Case Else
WScript.Echo "Too many parameters"
End Select
Set oArgs = Nothing

If txtFileName<>"" Then
Dim fso
Set fso=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FileExists(txtFileName) Then
Dim oFile,txtFileContents
Set oFile = fso.OpenTextFile(txtFileName, 1)
txtFileContents=oFile.readAll
oFile.close
Set oFile=Nothing

Const TagInit="#@~^" '#@~^awQAAA==
Const TagFin="==^#~@" '& chr(0)
Dim lStartCode, lExitCode
Do
lExitCode=0
lStartCode=Instr(txtFileContents,TagInit)
If lStartCode>0 Then
If (Instr(lStartCode,txtFileContents,"==")-lStartCode)=10 Then 'If "==" follows the tag
lExitCode=Instr(lStartCode,txtFileContents,TagFin)
If lExitCode>0 Then
txtFileContents=Left(txtFileContents,lStartCode-1) & _
Decode(Mid(txtFileContents,lStartCode+12,lExitCode-lStartCode-12-6)) & _
Mid(txtFileContents,lExitCode+6)
End If
End If
End If
Loop Until lExitCode=0
writeToFile txtFileName & ".vbs", txtFileContents
WScript.Echo txtFileContents
Else
WScript.Echo txtFileName & " not found"
End If
Set fso=Nothing
Else
WScript.Echo "Please give a filename"
WScript.Echo "Usage : " & wscript.fullname & " " & WScript.ScriptFullName & " "
End If

Sub writeToFile(txtFileName, txtFileContents)
Dim txtstr

Set txtstr = fso.CreateTextFile(txtFileName, True)
txtstr.write txtFileContents

txtstr.close
Set txtstr=Nothing
End Sub

Function Decode(txtBinChars)
Dim se,i,c,j,index,txtBinCharsTemp
Dim tDecode(127)
Const Combinaison="1231232332321323132311233213233211323231311231321323112331123132"

Set se=WSCript.CreateObject("Scripting.Encoder")

For i=9 to 127
tDecode(i)="JLA"
Next

For i=9 to 127
txtBinCharsTemp=Mid(se.EncodeScriptFile(".vbs",string(3,i),0,""),13,3)
For j=1 to 3
c=Asc(Mid(txtBinCharsTemp,j,1))
tDecode(c)=Left(tDecode(c),j-1) & chr(i) & Mid(tDecode(c),j+1)
Next
Next

'Next line we correct a bug, otherwise a ")" could be decoded to a ">"
tDecode(42)=Left(tDecode(42),1) & ")" & Right(tDecode(42),1)

Set se=Nothing

txtBinChars=Replace(Replace(txtBinChars,"@&",chr(10)),"@#",chr(13))
txtBinChars=Replace(Replace(txtBinChars,"@*",">"),"@!","<")
txtBinChars=Replace(txtBinChars,"@$","@")
index=-1

For i=1 to Len(txtBinChars)
c=asc(Mid(txtBinChars,i,1))
If c<128 Then index=index+1
If (c=9) or ((c>31) and (c<128)) Then
If (c<>60) and (c<>62) and (c<>64) Then
txtBinChars=Left(txtBinChars,i-1) & Mid(tDecode(c),Mid(Combinaison,(index mod 64)+1,1),1) & Mid(txtBinChars,i+1)
End If
End If
Next
Decode=txtBinChars
End Function

Function BrowseForFolder(ByVal pstrPrompt, ByVal pintBrowseType, ByVal pintLocation)
Dim ShellObject, pstrTempFolder, x
Set ShellObject=WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
On Error Resume Next
Set pstrTempFolder=ShellObject.BrowseForFolder(&H0,pstrPrompt,pintBrowseType,pintLocation)
BrowseForFolder=pstrTempFolder.ParentFolder.ParseName(pstrTempFolder.Title).Path
If Err.Number<>0 Then BrowseForFolder=""
Set pstrTempFolder=Nothing
Set ShellObject=Nothing
End Function

Usage:

YourDecryptScriptName.vbs FileToDecrypt.vbe

The script will decode the vbe file, display it in a message box and also create/overwrite a new file called FileToDecrypt.vbe.vbs which you can edit

Starting & Stopping Services on Ubuntu

Get a list of services:

ls /etc/init.d

Then Stop/Start using servicename followed by action:

sudo invoke-rc.d servicename stop

sudo invoke-rc.d servicename stop