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I’m learning the RingCentral APIs as part of their Game Changers challenge. My goal is to blog my way through the challenge and their APIs, working to automate my on-the-side security consulting business one step at a time. This means new content from me every day in October 2019. Stay tuned for more!
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Anyone who knows me in the development community knows how much of a fan I am of efficient APIs. I’ve built payments systems with Stripe. I’ve built bots with Twitter. I’ve built a phone routing system with Twilio. It’s this last experience that’s helped shape my own understand of and affinity for APIs, and I’ve
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I absolutely love attending tech conferences. They’re great opportunities to reach out to friends in the community, make new connections, and catch the leading edge of what’s going on with the technology I use. Over the past several years, I’ve attended several conferences and met hundreds of people. My favorites, though, are the tech representatives
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These days, I spend far more time writing and reviewing code in Python than I do PHP. It’s been a refreshing change of pace, and it’s fun to learn the different patterns present in various programming languages. One of the nicer patterns in Python is the Context Manager. It’s a pattern that PHP can learn…
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I will not ship any WordPress-related code or updates during the month of December. This is so I can take time to focus on family and 2019 planning. I encourage you to do the same.
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Next week kicks off the latest version of ZendCon in Las Vegas. Though I had, for a time, expected to be there … I won’t be. You should know why.
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March 23, 2008 was the day my friend Sean introduced me to Twitter. It was a foreign concept to me. A website that would forward text messages from you to a group of friends – and forward any messages they sent back to you. I was hooked. Sean had called the system “crack” and, honestly,
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The past few weeks have been exciting! I recently purchased the new Oryx Pro by System76 and have been absolutely loving the new machine. Here are some photos and first thoughts from my setup experience. Unboxing First and foremost, it took a bit longer for my machine to arrive than I’d expected. I was one of
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Rather than use GPG and SSH keys housed on individual machines, I embed my GPG private keys on Yubikeys by default. This allows me to keep my keys somewhat portable (i.e. I can use them on multiple devices) while preventing my keys from leaking if anyone accesses my machine without my permission. This is the same workflow I
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Last month I discovered a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the no-longer-developed yet still actively used Cart66 Pro plugin for WordPress. Here are the details …