Not too long ago I found myself needing to patch a .dll with a .dif file produced from IDA, after a very quick and admittedly quite lazy google turned up nothing I decided I needed to just write a quick one. I figured I would share with you the result.

It’s quite simple, select the target file you wish to patch and select a .dif file with the patches you wish to make. Note: the .dif files produced by IDA need to either have their first 4 lines removed or simply add a ; to the lines with text (turning them into what my patcher sees as a comment and ignores) otherwise it expects a format of:

Example Dif File

As you can see above this .dif file would make 8 bytes changes within the specified target file.

So as I’ve been designing this blog I decided I needed a good syntax highlighter as hopefully I’ll be posting lots of yummy source code for all kinds of interesting things. After a little while of searching I discovered found Crayon Syntax Highlighter by Aram Kocharyan, in short. WOW. This plugin is wonderful, uses jQuery and boasts a robust, but elegant syntax highlighting schema.

Hands down this plugin has been wonderful to use in every way, the only think I found it lacked (that I personally wanted) was the ability to pop code out of my blog into a another window, as you can see this blog is very thin and makes for lack luster code reading. After a quick contact with the plugin’s author low and behold the same day he build the feature into the plugin. How’s that for service!

Finally I built my own theme, for here at epicgeeks.net however I’ve made this theme available for download here: Epicgeeks Crayon Theme (426)