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Managing Gearman Securely
The impact of an improperly-secured Gearman server grows with the importance of the application using it.
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Job Definitions
My role in my job is not the limit to who I am.
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WordPress.com is not WordPress
A story I enjoy retelling is how a friend of mine tricked me into using WordPress. At the time, I was working with him on a career mentorship project. He’d written a book that I was publishing, and we wanted to add a premium video series to go along with it. We just needed a way to host those videos online. I was still very new to web development. I had built my own portfolio site in PHP, having learned PHP through a series of emails from a good friend in Arizona. My business partner was excited about the prospect…
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Why Phishing Attacks Succeed
It’s impossible to train consumers on appropriate security behavior when the real ways of interacting with a bank so closely resemble phishing attacks.
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What S.J. Resolution 34 Means For You
If you’re reading the news, you’ve probably seen hoards of tech journalists up in arms about S.J. Resolution 34. In a nutshell, this is an agreement by Congress to overturn a rule passed late last year by the FCC. The rule itself prohibited Internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting and sharing data about their customers without said customers’ consent. The Congressional resolution nullifies that rule. What happened Last October, the FCC published a rule aimed at protecting consumer privacy. It dictated specifically that ISPs were required to: notify customers about the data being collected explain for which purposes that data…
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Intentions – Real and Imagined
On January 8th, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She used her time on stage accepting the award to talk about the importance of art, the importance of diversity in art, and to publicly criticize president-elect Donald Trump for his resistance to and animosity towards the media. She specifically reflected on how, during his election campaign, Mr. Trump appeared to mock a journalist with a physical disability. Let me come back to that. First, a story … My fourth year in college saw me working for the university Housing department, attending various planning…
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Introducing Sessionz
Introducing a new, middleware-inspired session handler for PHP projects (not just WordPress) called Sessionz. It’s open source; take a look!
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Going Negative
It’s often easier to point out the flaws in your competition than it is to highlight your own selling points.
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Owning My Internet
For some access, I use an anonymous VPN proxy. When publishers block that kind of a VPN, I instead roll my own network with a Raspberry Pi from home.
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Email Lock-down
Thanks to the beauty of open source (and other, smarter developers who’ve already traveled down this rabbit hole), I don’t have to figure out how to set up a personal mail server on my own. All of the tools are readily available!