Web Development

Deploy websites using Git – the easy way

May 6, 2011
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After hours of playing around with ssh, sudo, user permissions etc. trying to deploy a PHP website from a Github repository, the best solution I could find was to not use Github at all. I am a big fan of Git and Github, but automatically deploying a website from a Github repository was very fiddly [...]

Compare versions of a file in git

September 28, 2010
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Super quick tip because I’m always forgetting – if you want to compare an older version of a file with the most recent version in your git repository:

12 useful firefox plugins for web developers

September 24, 2010
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Every day I use plugins to help me work, here are a dozen firefox plugins that I have found to be most useful. Some are indirectly related to web development but all of them have improved my development experience and are the main reason why I still do most of my development on firefox. Most [...]

5 XSS Exploits You Should Know About

June 19, 2009
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Following on from my HTTP Splitting post, this post rounds up 5 common cross site scripting (xss) attacks and how to prevent them. Stored XSS Reflected XSS XSS Phishing CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) XST Cross Site Tracing Preventing XSS

HTTP Cache Poisoning

June 17, 2009
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I have started working through the WebGoat tutorials from OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). The first tute covering HTTP splitting and cache poisoning was difficult enough for me to start with, and in fact I could write a whole post on installing WebGoat and WebScarab which was an achievement in itself. Half the reason [...]

Blackberry Emulator on Windows

March 10, 2009
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Spent a while downloading and installing the blackberry emulator on Windows. Since installing Ubuntu well over a year ago I hardly ever boot into Vista, perhaps a handful of times in total. Every time I do boot into windows there is all this bloat ware that starts loading, plus a host of other problems. In [...]

Resetting default file permissions on Windows Server 2003

December 1, 2007

Okay I blew it! Not until today in my career have I ever made a change to a production server that prevented it from booting properly! I had to make a certain application run on a terminal server and the client wanted it “yesterday” as they always do. To cut a long story short I [...]

Group Policy File System and Registry Rights Not Applying

November 20, 2007

I was having a problem at several sites whereby the file and registry permissions that I was trying to set with Group Policy were not applying correctly.

Desktop settings corruption

August 31, 2007

Had a laptop come in today that was infected with various spyware and viri. One of the spyware items was one of those Active Desktop jobs that takes over your desktop and tells you that you have critical spyware bla bla bla. I cleaned all the spyware off no worries and viruses with a little [...]

Outlook passwords not saving?

June 17, 2007

Are you having problems with Outlook not saving your passwords despite having clicked “remember password” several times. The problem is most likely solved by perfoming the following actions.

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