By now, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a WordPress API using axios and can display the data.The aim of this series, however is to build an app and get it on the app stores. To achieve this, we are going to use cordova. Cordova Read more…
Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive techniques I can find for remoteoperating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is the process of transmitting packets Read more…
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 environment is setup npm install -g cordovanpm install -g @vue/cli clone your existing repo and cd to its folder Read more…
This is a WordPress 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 the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
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 threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…
A comparison of 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 utilised when developing and deploying an SOA system to overcome the challenges of a distributed enterprise system, Read more…
This post is a combination of previous posts about privacy settings in mac and ios. Safari do not track: Safari gives users the option to enable the ‘do not track’ feature. It’s easy to enable: safari > preferences > privacy > Ask websites not to track me Safari prevent cross-site Read more…
There are a couple of things you need for mining monero in osx using xmring: 1) A monero wallet (get one from mymonero.com) 2) Homebrew (brew.sh) mining monero in osx using xmring: dependencies You have to make sure you have homebrew installed (so that you can install the xmrig dependencies), Read more…
Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine: Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash) Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org) Bitcoin Read more…
Automatic cron updates with yum-cron on centos Update: I made a post on installing and configuring yum-cron in centos I have a virtual machine on my esxi box running centos 7. I dont log in all that much, as most of the operations that are run are automatic (eg polling Read more…
4 Layers in an SOA There are 4 layers in an SOA: Business Processes Business Services Integration Services Enterprise Resources Enterprise Resources existing applications COTS systems (consumer, off the shelf) Object Oriented systems Legacy systems (eg CRM + ERP) Data at this layer resides in existing applications and databases Operations have Read more…
4 types of service in an SOA system. Business services Domain services Integration services Foundation / Utility services Business Services Provide high-level functionality Provides abstraction of the interface Provides integration of the layers below Breaks the direct dependance between business processes and existing systems Provides a virtual implementation Provides business processes Read more…
This is the change log for multiloquent 6 1 01 11a7be0 psr2 fixes abe3129 psr2 changes 80cbc30 misc tidy ups 00d17a1 tag link 5ea34c5 pagination dd3582f pagination still 9443ffa pagination b44f9be pagination 2a7d85b pagination 74f362f pagination 694c07f pagination 283bc75 pagination 8329440 pagination 59ed693 pagination 313d6f5 mb class in css 02ff70a Read more…
Since I released my first public wordpress theme (I have made lots of themes over the years, but have never released any as open-source) I decided I would share the build process for multiloquent theme – just incase anyone wanted to know. the tools I use: 1) eclipse (zend-php-eclipse) 2) Read more…
I had an issue with people trying to send iMessages to my phone number. for some reason ios7 had set iMessages to only send to my email address and not to my phone number. to fix it, I had to get the help from my boss at work :) its Read more…
Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
Enabling encryption on your macs harddrive is easy. goto system preferences > security and privacy > filevault click the padlock in the bottom left hand corner type your password click ‘turn filevault on’ you will then get a recovery key. you can write this down, print it, email it, whatever Read more…
Ubuntuforums.org has been hacked and all of the email addresses, usernames and passwords have been taken. there are 1.8 million users on that forum :| from the announcement: There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore Read more…
This was meant to be a post about the different email clients available on linux, and their various good points. but to be honest, there arent any good email clients on linux. there are nearly good email clients, but after using sparrow or airmail on a mac, everything else is Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default email client in osx. it will let your chosen email client be used for both mailto: links and for the safari share with email feature. the actual setting for the default email client is in mail.app you need an account Read more…
There have been a lot of posts going about the blogosphere in the last few months from people talking about their ios7 wishlist. I thought I’d publish mine. 1) ability to pick default browser and email client. infact, the ability to pick default apps for lots of things would be Read more…
Airmail is an excellent app. Ive been using it since it was available as a beta, and its now launched in the app store! http://airmailapp.info
I use thunderbird at work on my ubuntu machine. one thing that always annoyed me was the lack of a conversation view – one that let me see who had written to me and what I had replied. in-line. without them having to include everything in the reply. basically the Read more…
This post is a comparison of the various email clients available on mac osx (and some mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives if you are looking for them – Ive included sparrow in the list aswell so that others might learn its awesomeness) 1) mail.app features: imap, pop, exchange, Read more…
Ive been using google plus a lot more recently. I think facebook has become overburdened with marketeering. one thing that I did notice however was that I was being bombarded with notifications (like Facebook does by default too) if someone replied to a comment that I made then id get Read more…
This post will show you the two ways that you can email photos from an iphone and an ipad the first way: direct from mail: open mail, compose a new mail to someone as usual touch and hold on the body of the email, as if you were going to Read more…
This post will list the various ways to get pdf ebooks (or anything in a pdf) on to your iphone / ipad / ipad mini there are a few ways to do it: if its just one or two pdf files then email it to an email address thats configured Read more…
When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…
In osx mountain lion you can send imessage messages (or google chat / facebook chat if thats setup in your messages app) directly from the addressbook / contacts app open addressbook / contacts find the contact you want to message click on the ‘mobile’ or ‘phone’ or ’email’ tag next Read more…
How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…
This post will show you how to sync all of your Facebook contacts details with the contacts in your iPhones addressbook. It will only add the information that your Facebook contacts have allowed to be synced, so if bob or joe don’t want you having their new cell number or Read more…
This post will show you how to delete mail in your gmail account from the mail.app in your iphone or ipad without archiving it. 1) make sure your iphone or ipad is setup to get your google mail using exchange 2) goto m.google.com/sync in safari on your iphone or ipad Read more…
This is an awesome tip. if you have ever wanted to quickly email the link to a webpage to someone (i often mail links to my gmail account) its a bit of a drawn out process: highlight the url, copy it, open mail.app, click create new mail, fill in a Read more…
What to do when your mac or ipad or iphone is stolen. This is a horrible post to have to write. My house just got broken in to and my macbook pro and my ipad got stolen, along with three other laptops. Here is a list of things I did, Read more…
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword ‘author’ author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents made by bob [or sent from bob] that match ‘final report’ There are other keywords you can use: name, date, Read more…
This will show you how to sync your notes from mail.app with gmail. [doing this will let you use gmail to sync the notes.app on your iphone / ipad with your mail.app on your mac] 1) setup a google account in mail.app. 2) any notes you enter will now appear Read more…
This will show you how to change order of apps in iphone or ipad notification center for groups of apps in your ipad or iphone notification center. It helps when you have lots of apps that send lots of notifications and you only want the important ones on top. goto Read more…
In ios5 and above you can change the default email account – allowing you to send emails from a specified account. To do this goto: settings > mail, calendars and contacts scroll down and find ‘Default Account’ select it, and you are presented with a list of your configured mail Read more…
This will show you how to change the from: address when you send an email in iphone mail.app compose a new mail click on the address in the from: field it will now give you a list of the configured accounts pick the account you want to send form