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 post we will be adding these checks – checking if the categories have sub-categories, and checking if they have posts Read more…
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 issues we have: 1) add a link for the categories 2) use some bootstrap code to make things look nicer Read more…
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 to look into the wordpress API – fortunately there is excellent documentation available here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ The specific endpoint we are Read more…
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 documentation available here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ The specific endpoint we are interested in is the ‘post’ endpoint: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/categories/ The first edit we Read more…
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 up some routes and create a basic ‘single’ page to show the content from a wordpress post Tirst thing to Read more…
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…
I have decided to start studying towards a CISSP and / or an OSCP, as part of that I saw an excellent blog post recommending to go through a lot of CTF challenges from vulnhub.com. These are my Kioptrix walkthrough guides / findings and observations for each of the first 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…
This is a how to use 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 Read more…
My brother got me a BBC micro:bit for my birthday. I decided to have a play around with it to see what it can do – its a pretty good ecosystem – you can edit code in python, load it to the device using bluetooth from your mobile and its 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 is a quick post about importing nessus6 scan results into metasploit. This can be very useful for adding a ton of information into a new Metsploit database, or adding to information you already have (eg importing results from a weekly or monthly scan of a website / web server) Read more…
This is a basic openvas tutorial for beginners. I will explain a little of how to use openvas web ui to perform a test of your systems. It will give you the basic options for using metasploit msfconsole to run an openvas vulnerability scan. You will also learn how to Read more…
reader – the awesome iphone rss reading app has now updated with support for feedly! google reader is now dead, so I moved to feedly. there was a one click import of all my google reader feeds and starred items into feedly, so the migration was painless. feedly have an Read more…
Importing google reader starred items into pocket. As you all know google reader is being killed very soon. there are lots of google reader alternatives. I use reeder on my phone, ipad and mac to read all my rss feeds. it syncs with google reader and so I have built 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…
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get 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…
Playing flv mpg avi files on apple tv 2 ATV2. This blog post will show you how to play all your video files on your apple tv 2 Install Perian on your mac to enable lots of different codecs in quicktime download perian from perian.org install it navigate to your Read more…
This tutorial is about syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail, and then sync that to your apple mail.app and your iphone the hardest part about having so many email accounts and social networking accounts is finding the time to log into them all and check for mail and Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your google calendar with ical. jump to: instructions for osx lion, mountain lion and mavericks instructions for snow leopard faq How to sync your google calendar with ical in osx lion, mountain lion and Mavericks In osx snow leopard it was possible 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…
well, it took a while, but I have finnished the script that will migrate our clients database over to our new system. it didnt actually take that long to make the script, but I had to do a million and one other things at the same time, which made it Read more…
How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes. new method: Select a track in itunes. Right click > get info > options > set “media kind” to “audiobook”. The selected track is now an audiobook! How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes the old way I was looking Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your mac osx contacts to gmail contacts. This will allow for a two-way sync – ie when you add a contact to your addressbook, its automatically added to google and when you add a contact to google its automatically added to your Read more…
Migrating from hotmail to gmail. I’ve written before about how I like to keep everything in the one place – contacts, IM people, and email. Up until now I have been using various ways of checking my various email accounts – outlook, windows live mail desktop and thunderbird to name 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…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
Mastering tracks – Ok, so the hard part is done. you’ve written, demoed, practiced, arranged in countless different ways, recorded, re-recorded, mixed, re-mixed and finally scrapped and done all that again, you have a handfull of songs. your not happy with them (noone ever is). now the hard part starts. Read more…
This one might seem a little easy for some people, but it essential that everyone knows it – what is a compressor, and how to use compressor plugins in protools. Basically a compressor takes the incoming audio and squeezes it, making the louder bits quieter and the quieter bits louder. Read more…
This post is about Syncing all my contacts. Ok, so I have a lot of contacts, they are all in different places. all I really want is to have one list of names, email addresses and phone numbers.I want this list in my phone and on all the services that Read more…
Syncing photos between social networks is hard to do. i think I might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but I dont really have the time. though with all the API’s out there I could sell it for a fiver a time and Read more…