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…
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 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 the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. 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…
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…
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, including application integration, 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 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 in an existing database. cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php composer global require 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…
Replace iphone home button: The home button on my iphone 6 plus stopped working, so I had to fit a new one. Unfortunately touchId won’t work any more but at least I’ll be able to open up my phone and see inside and also get a working button! I ordered Read more…
Blackarch pacman package groups Install with pacman -S groupname to quickly install a bunch of tools in one command: This info is available in the blackarch developers guide here: https://blackarch.org/blackarch-guide-en.pdf – this post is a copy-paste of that info – there are a lot of red-team things in the list, Read more…
Challenges of SOA / Comparison of SOA and traditional apps Traditional enterprise applications present themselves as islands of data, automation and security. Integration is needed because of the nature of existing enterprise apps. Islands of Data Each island has its own definition of enterprise objects and information Each Island has Read more…
Oracle forms overview. Oracle internet platform consists of 3 components: oracle application server (forms service + OC4J) oracle developer suite (forms developer + object navigator + form module) oracle database Oracle application server includes forms service – new generation of tools that allow devs to deploy new and existing forms Read more…
Oracle instead of triggers, and why you need them: You cant update a view if it contains:group byorder byanalytical /aggregate functionssubqueriesjoins You then need an ‘instead of’ trigger CREATE TRIGGER my_trigger INSTEAD OF INSERT ON my_view FOR EACH ROW DECLARE — stuff BEGIN INSERT INTO table_a VALUES ( :NEW.col_a, :NEW.col_b); Read more…
Oracle logical structures Oracle logical structures can be summarised by the following: Schema. Tablespace. Datablock. Redo log. Schema collection of objects (table, view, etc) owned by db user name is the same as db user mixed up (user is often used interchangeably with schema) access – user has access to Read more…
How to permanently show the tab bar in finder: In OSX Mavericks, Apple added a well overdue feature: tabs. I just found this out, you can permanently show the tab bar in finder! To always show the tab bar in finder: Open finder Goto view > show tab bar Finder Read more…
Everything you need to know about tags in OSX. OSX Mavericks introduced an interesting new feature: tags. Tags are used almost like folders. Except that the files that show when you view the tag stay in their original place. When you open a finder window you will see a list Read more…
Today was a long day. this morning we had coffee and tea then had a full breakfast. after breakfast we set out in the cars, we went to duck bay marina, then to the view point place just at the hydro-electric power station. from there we went to inverarnan for Read more…
How to show list view in calendar ios. I love the list view in the ios6 calendar. It shows me everything that Ive got upcoming over the next few days in one screen. in the new calendar in ios7 and above its not immediately apparent that this list view exists. Read more…
This is an awesome tip that I just stumbled over :) I was trying to view the colour of an element in my site (the background colour of the body tag) in the element inspector all the colours were showing as rgb values. but, if you click on the small Read more…
This post will show you how to install redmine mylyn connector in zend studio or eclipse. firstly you need to configure redmine: update your redmine to the latest version [see instructions here] install redmine mylyn connector in redmine [see instruction here] once your redmine is updated and the plugin installed Read more…
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 is an excellent tip I saw in one of my rss feeds over the christmas break: quickly view and edit drafts in iphone / ipad mail.app open the mail app on your iphone / iPad press and hold the compose new mail icon in the top right hand corner Read more…
Safari in mountain lion has a cool new feature – icloud tabs. icloud tabs let you sync your browser tabs between devices, eg you can open a tab in your ipad, and then view it in your iphone or on your mac! to enable icloud tabs on your mac: open Read more…
Reeder is the app I use the most on my iphone and my ipad. its an rss reader. it syncs with your google reader account. you can view starred items and you can star items too. thats it. its very simple. why do I use it so much? i use 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 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 probably all know about iTunes u on the iPad and iPhone. I’ve been trying it out, and so far its excellent. I’ve been using the stanford iOS course to try out the iTunes U app for both my iPad and my iPhone. a couple of things that I’ve noticed: Read more…
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 :)
This is a list of twitter clients for osx available on the mac app store. 1) twitter official client pros works with lists multiple accounts looks excellent cons can only view one thing at a time, eg you cant have a live stream of two accounts at once no sync Read more…
This will show you how to use itunes home sharing to view and play your entire itunes library from your mac or pc on your ipad or iphone in your mac or pc turn on ‘home sharing’ itunes > preferences > sharing turn on ‘share my itunes library on my Read more…
Viewing iphoto photo album on apple tv : This will show you how to view an iphoto photo album on apple tv2. This also works with Yosemite and El-Capitan with the new ‘photos’ app. To view photos on the Apple TV, you need to have Home Sharing turned on in Read more…
This page will show you how to zoom in with your iPhone camera when you take photos. You will also find out how to view the zoom bar so that you can zoom in and out using that. Every iPhone and iPad that have a camera have the same feature. Read more…
I have moved into a new flat :) its really nice and has a fantastic view right up the river clyde, in glasgow. I have no internet access at home untill the service gets enabled, except through my phone. I have a lot of posts to write about cool things Read more…
This one is very handy. i like having the status bar in safari because it lets me know the url for a link before I click it. you can enable it by going to view > show status bar or by cmd+/