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23 Apr
Software Deployment with SaltStack – Part 2
Key Factors from Part 1 The first article in this series raised some subtle points when using SaltStack to deploy code to production environments, one of these was targeting Production systems another was rebuilding minimal... -
16 Apr
Software Deployment with SaltStack
Deployment pitfalls This is part 1 of a 2 part series, Part two is here. Except for very simple software, most code deployments of any substance relies on a number of dependencies, both at the Operating... -
14 Apr
Getting started with Git
Introduction to Git As web development, and for that matter any software development becomes more and more complicated the need to track changes, compare new code against old and the ability to enable multiple people... -
09 Apr
Byte encoding exploits in PHP files
Despite better coding practices, testing and peer review of code, the number of exploit attempts and the technical complexity of attacks continues to increase against web sites. With the rise in exploit attempts comes a... -
07 Apr
Getting Started With The Spark Framework on Plesk 12
In the world of web application development, especially rapid web application development, the names you usually hear of are PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, and, more recently, Go. The name you usually don’t hear,...
18 Jan
Good Password Hygiene
As the year gets off to a flying start, now is the time to work on and tidy up our passwords. Like all systems, good password hygiene can help to ensure you remain secure and avoid costly exploits. Instead of waiting for an incident to occur, we want to be one step in front and prevent it from ever occurring...