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 a backend service.Secondary considerations are: using cordova to aid us in building an android, iOS and electron app Beginning Building 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…
Spidering a web application using website crawler software in kali linux There are lots of tools to spider a web application (an companies which are based on this tech, eg google) short list of tools to help you spider a site (eg for creating a sitemap for SEO, or recon 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…
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 need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some testing from an external Read more…
Migrate music from itunes to google play. 1) goto play.google.com/music 2) sign up (the free service is fine, when it asks for a payment, you can select ‘google play balance’) 3) go here for instructions form google 4) go here: to get the google music manager to upload your tracks Read more…
Vagrant with NFS and public_network. You can use NFS in vagrant, but it requires a private_network to work; This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some Read more…
I wrote a previous post about kali on the hi10, and promised a followup on Chuwi hi10 pro kali linux wifi fixes; here it is. The on-board wifi works out of the box in kali 2018.01 :D Kali chuwi hi10 pro wifi fix if you have just installed kali on Read more…
This is a short tutorial on dual booting windows and Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. Updated for Kali 2018.4 When I first wrote this post I seriously wouldn’t have recommended Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro as an every-day system – Starting with 2018.01 and the 4.14 kernel it Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
How to copy a file to multiple locations in linux. cp doesnt let you copy one file to multiple locations; There are a few ways to do this, but the one I always return to uses find To copy the contents of a directory to multiple other directories find /location/to/folder Read more…
This post is a wapiti tutorial. You’ll find various wapiti options, how to import wapiti scan results into metasploit and how you can disable wapiti modules to speed up your scans. A basic one-liner command to get you started would be: More about the command line arguments: These basics will Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpcs and phpmd in sublime text on your mac: Following on from my post about using git and phpcs in brackets, I decided to try the same setup in sublime text. The first part is some background setup – installing phpcs and Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a remote ssh filesystem as a ‘drive’ in osx using a bash script, osxfuse and brew. There are a few ways to go about this, all of them require a bit of setup and tweaking, But I found this to be the Read more…
Setting up brackets editor with git and phpcs with wordpress coding standard etc Brackets editor (brackets.io) is an editor that I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, but for it to be viable for me to use, I had to configure a few things: git in brackets editor Read more…
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment System [ NES ] Super Nintendo Entertainment System [ SNES ] Nintendo 64 playstation psx link to another post on Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpunit in centos using pear or composer. I prefer using composer as its mega easy to add lots of cool stuff and keep it all updated. Install phpunit in centos with composer. Firstly, If you don’t have composer, then you’ll need to Read more…
This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick 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…
This post will show you how to see the home library folder ~/Library in the ‘go’ menu in finder. if you click on the go menu while holding alt, then you will see the library folder. if you let go alt, then the library folder goes away!
In osx lion and mountain lion the ~/Library folder is hidden. this terminal command will un-hide it for you. open terminal type chflags nohidden ~/Library you will now be able to see your ~/Library folder in finder
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be mounted in the /path/to/mount folder :)
This post will show you how to move the apps arround on your iphone or ipad, and how to put apps into folders. to move apps around, tap and hold on an apps icon. all the icons will start to wiggle. once they are wiggling you can delete apps by Read more…
This short blog post will show you a command that will let you find the ten biggest files or directories in linux and osx machines. I forget these commands every time I need to use them, so I have added a post to my blog to help me be able Read more…
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi :D If you don’t know what airplay is already, then this post most likely isn’t for you, but here is Read more…
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight to reindex either your whole machine, or a specific folder. force spotlight to reindex your drive using the terminal open 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 change the login screen wallpaper background image in osx lion. the file you need to change is called /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/ NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png simply rename the image and copy the image you want to the folder and call it NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png done :)
This one is pretty cool. you can change finders folder view settings by using keyboard shortcuts. cmd+1 = icon view cmd+2 = list view cmd+3 = column view cmd+4 = coverflow :)
Automount network drive on startup osx. This will show you how to automount a network drive when you login to osx lion. This method will persist through a reboot, so your drive will always be available. Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the Read more…
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that’s already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the Read more…
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them in iTunes. If you have used an external program to change data and you don’t want to have to play Read more…
I wanted to delete my old time machine backup from my western digital mybook world i didnt need it for anything, as I have a backup of it :D i found two ways to do it. method 1 – ssh. if you have ssh enabled on your mybook world then Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of the folders in launchpad in osx lion and mountain lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file ecsb_background_tile.png rename it to ecsb_background_tile_backup.png copy the image that you want for the background of the launchpad folders to the folder and Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of mission control in osx lion and mountain lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file defaultdesktop.png rename it to defaultdesktop_backup.png copy the image that you want for mission control to the folder and name it defaultdesktop.png open terminal and Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of the dashboard in osx lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file pirelli.png rename it to pirelli_backup.png copy the image that you want for the dashboard background to the folder and name it pirelli.png find the file mini_pirelli.png rename Read more…
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight search to disable spotlight search suggestions and free up some resources on your machine. There are lots of scenarios where Read more…
This will show you how to mount a remote directory in finder using sftp. (Mount sftp folder with finder). There is a link at the bottom to a post to mount any remote system you have ssh access to using homebrew. check that out if you like working with the Read more…