If you already have a Wordpress theme and have used the customiser to change some settings, then creating a child-theme for more advanced modifications usually means loosing your customisations, or…
Investigating uPNP with python for fun and profit. SSDP is an interesting uPNP protocol - devices advertise their capabilities on the network and leak valuable information. SSDP is very similar…
Snapcraft building arm snaps on raspberry pi! This post will focus on wrapping a python script using snap. Its recommended that you do this on ubuntu core 18, available from…
Building custom blocks for WordPress. Blocks in WordPress are built in javascript (ES5, or ESNext/JSX then compiled down to js using webpack and bable). If you have used react or…
A breif look at the tools you need as a web developer in 2020, running Linux on the desktop as a web developer. OSX is my os of choice, but…
How to set up a shopify local development environment. Shopify is an interesting platform - they allow you to create and edit your own tempaltes (using liquid) but there isnt…
"Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed by remote host" The dreaded 'vagrant sshfs remount after timeout' error when using vagrant-sshfs. It happens when forgetting to suspend the guest machine before the host…
I've been training over the last 4 weeks for my Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master Certification. I took an online course, which was delivered over zoom in real time (as…
Following on from my vuejs and cordova tutorials, I decided to launch the app - you can now download the app from the app storeI'll be creating a roadmap and…
Building a wordpress plugin scaffolding from scratch This is a basic walkthrough on how to create the scaffolding for a wordpress plugin from scratch. Firstly, create a repo in githubclone…
300 word summary: What is the paper about? Defending Against Injection Attacks Through Context-Sensitive String Evaluation introduces CSSE - Context-Sensitive String Evaluation - a way to detect sqlI in php at…
What is an API (Introduction to APIs) Carrying on from my previous posts on SOA here and here I thought it may be useful to write a post on what…
300 word summary: AMNESIA: analysis and monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-injection attacks. Provides a valuable background section on the countermeasures for SQL injection attacks: Defensive ProgrammingGeneral Techniques against SQLiStatic Analysis techniques…
My MSc Thesis in 2016 was titled Evaluation of SQL injection testing tools and techniques. I had a quick look through all my old uni work looking for content to…
My research notes about the different types of sqli - sql injection attack types; inband (eg reading errors from the screen) out-of-band (getting information from a different channel eg from…
What is the paper about? a holistic approach for a static analysis algorithm to detect sqli in web applications using run-time inspection Who is the intended audience? researchers Is title/abstract…
This paper (A Classification of SQL Injection Attacks and Countermeasures) has an excellent section on Injection mechanisms - the way that sql code is modified to actually perform the injection…
By now in out Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API journey, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a Wordpress API using axios and…
Conditional rendering. Our category system is a bit basic right now - it doesnt check to see which categories actuall have posts (and which categories have child-categories), so in this…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 5 at this point pour app looks pretty poor, this part of the turorial we will fix some of the…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 3 In part 3 we will be looking at categories (or archives in wordpress terminology) At this point, its good…
In part 3 we will be looking at categories (or archives in wordpress terminology) At this point, its good to look into the wordpress API – fortunately there is excellent…
Continuing on fom Part1, where we made a (very) basic vuejs app to fetch data from a wordpress API, we will move on and in this tutorial we will set…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API - Part 1 The aim in this is to make an offline-first PWA with vuejs / axios / bootstrap using wordpress as…
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques - Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection…
It turns out that adding cordova to an existing vue app is pretty easy. If only I'd known this before trying at least 10 different ways: First, make sure your…
This is a WordPress Security mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a Wordpress site.Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of…
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further…
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the…
If you have ssh with keys for authentication setup on your system, and you use vagrant then you can combine the two to have all your ssh keys automatically shared with your…
Vagrant with sshfs. You can use sshfs in vagrant with only a private network. This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont…
Remote Debugging PHP in SublimeText with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install SublimeText How to get Xdebug working with Sublime Text? Open SublimeText Open…
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug installBrackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open BracketsGoto the extensions tab…
Remote Debugging PHP in Eclipse with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) Eclipse Configuring Eclipse and Xdebug Open Eclipse Inside Eclipse, goto preferences…
Remote Debugging PHP in Visual Studio Code with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) vscode How to get Xdebug working with Visual Studio…
service-oriented architecture and frameworks IntroductionPapazoglou, (2003) organised SOA in four architectural layers: Service Foundations, Service Composition, Service Management and Service Engineering and outlined a host of technologies that could be…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I'll…
Laravel quickstart gist using craftable and existing database schema to generate models, etc from existing database schema. cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php…
This follows on from the previous laravel gist. it covers generating mdels, views and bootstrapping for controllers for pre-existing database tables.Useful if you have a few hundred tables and relationships…