Apache Cordova “Hello World” meets the real world
cordova_256 Everyone who’s ever learned to code (and probably a few more) knows about the “
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Simple and automatic Github deployment using PHP
jondavis-name If you’re like me, every project you work on worth anything gets put in GitHub. It’s safe and you get all the benefits of using Git. Of course those benefits include deployment hooks, if you’ve got the system setup for it. On small projects it may seem like it’s more hassle to setup deployment…
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Microsoft showed off at an Apple event… oh and some new iDevices
Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 10.41.25 AM On the right you’ll see a screenshot I captured from today’s Apple event. One half of that image is an Apple staff member talking about the latest and greatest iPad Pro. On the other half of the image you’ll see… a Microsoft logo. At an Apple event? These two…
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Outbound Email Security – Part 1 – SPF
512px-Envelope_font_awesome.svg Email, as a technology, has been around for longer than “The Web”. While one often hears about security for the web (in the form of encryption, tor, etc), rarely do people discuss email security. As with any technology there are many areas to “secure”, however this series will focus on outbound email security as…
Unblocking Private IPs from Public DNS under PFSense
2015-08-31 12_58_10-pfSense – Status_ Dashboard My home network has a domain name, so I don’t have to remember all the IP addresses of my various servers. However, I publish all the DNS information using AWS Route 53 since $0.50/month is much more palatable to me than running BIND. This works flawlessly until you get a…
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Tutorial: Using VMWare ESXi and PFsense as a network firewall/router
[vSphere](http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists/341025702) In most networks, you will have dedicated hardware to function as your “edge” (firewall/router). This is typically for the best, but there are always cases where you can’t put out that dedicated hardware. Sometimes it’s for cost reasons and sometimes it’s for complexity. In my particular case, I was installing an ESXi server in…
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