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 Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Read more…
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 the package install dialog (cmd+shift+p then type “pack inst”) Search for ‘xdebug’ Select Xdebug Client and Press enter Setting Up Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug install Brackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open Brackets Goto the extensions tab (the second icon on the right pane) Search for ‘xdebug’ Click install Click close, click close again Click Read more…
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 > php > debug > debuggers Change the debugger to xdebug Click configure Change the dropdown for “accept remote session Read more…
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 Code? Open vscode Goto the extensions tab (the last icon on the left pane) Search for ‘PHP Debug’ Click install Read more…
Continuing on from my original metasploit beginners tutorial, here is a slightly more advanced Metasploit tutorial on how to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities. The outcome of this tutorial will be to gather information on a host and its running services and their versions and vulnerabilities, rather than to Read more…
This is a burp suite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks. Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated Read more…
I just realised I dont have a post on how to install xdebug in centos7 with php7 and setting up xdebug and eclipse. Its a feature that I use every day, and I had assumed I already had a post, but when searching my site ) only found instructions for Read more…
Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for excellence twice – in my PGDIP year, and in my MSc year. I am also a professional member of the 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 have made a simple bash script to convert your xml sitemap to html anchor tags e.g. For importing into Firefox or chrome bookmarks (or for any other use you can think of) It has been tested on linux mint and osx mavericks, but it should work wherever you have Read more…
This is an excellent tweak to make to your osx or linux system open man pages in safari (or firefox or chrome): man pages are great, but they arent the most usable. browsers are far more usable. You can set an enviroment variable in your osx or linux system that Read more…
This post will show you how to get your bookmarks from chrome / firefox / chrome into your ipad or iphone’s safari browser firstly, make sure that you have safari on your computer also make sure you have icloud installed in your pc if you run windows next, open the Read more…
This is a cool tip when you are using finder: in safari / firefox / other browsers you can navigate forwards and backwards by click-and-hold ing on the forward / backward buttons. this also works in finder :D just navigate through a couple of folders, and then click-and-hold on the Read more…
This will show you how to use spotlight to search google and display the results in chrome, firefox or any other browser 1) open safari 2) go to preferences > general 3) make sure ‘google’ is your preferred search engine. 4) make sure the browser you want to use to Read more…
This one is cool: Quickly add any url from any app to safari reading list! highlight a url (in the address-bar in chrome or firefox) goto the services menu (appname > services) you will find a link for ‘add to reading list’ click it :) In chrome you can highlight Read more…
This post will show you a range of ways to detect and remove unused css from your site. removing unused css will help your stylesheets load faster which, in turn will help your site load faster. there are several ways to do this. one way is to use a firefox Read more…
There are lots of firefox addons for web development; here are the best firefox addons for web development I use on a daily basis. firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, Read more…
google is now using the speed of your site to determine your search rankings your site needs to be as fast as it can. Along with optimising your site for search results and w3c and wcag validation you now need to optimise for speed using google pagespeed. there are a Read more…
Today I am going to share some html css and wcag v2 aaa validation tools with you. these things will help to make sure your site performs as well as it can, and as fast as it can. google have announced that they are now counting the loading time of Read more…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…
i have used xmarks for a good while now. it used to be called foxmarks. it basically keeps a list of your bookmarks on their server and syncs them with your browser. not impressive if oyu only have one computer and use one browser, but when you use 5 computers Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…
One of the sites that I made for work now has mcaffeeand pci complience. the site is www.e-security-exchange.com some of the features of the site are : CMS, e-commerce platform, secure video streaming (you get a certain ammount of views of the videos you have paid for), mcaffee secure, PCI Read more…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…