A really good technique for keeping data safe and secure both at rest and in transit is to hash your data as much as you can. A hash is a function that converts one value to another. Hashing data is a common practice in
I came across this issue when using an API. The API required a login using a username and password. Nothing strange about that. What was interesting though was the fact that you needed a CSRF token for that login generated from a
The Scenario The scenario is you have a file situated on another server and you need to give certain users access to that file. This file contains sensitive, personal information which you'd rather not have residing in attachments or languishing in a documents folder on
“So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.” ― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Software development is hard. There are
It seems barely a month goes by without some potential threat to scupper an open source project, however unwittingly. Be it a major security flaw or patent infringement - the latter in this case is what has provoked this post. This time it is the
If you are expecting Firefox WebDriver to work right out the box on a Selenium test it propably will not work. The reason for this is that Firefox recently released its own interpretation of the WebDriver spec - Gecko - supported by their remote
Occasionally you will need www-data to write to your dev folder - for example uploading docs or perhaps creating a text log. If you house your dev folder outside the server, for example Apache, and symbolically link to it the original folder is still
There are lots of reasons for Mongo not being able to connect to server - the most obvious one is that the service has not started or a file ownership issue as in owner not being mongodb. First place to check is in the log
When building new projects if I am not using an unbuilt server within a framework such as Symfony I like to keep my code-base separate from the web server that is serving up the content. Its good for security because you are not storing vital
Now this little number nearly had me committed! This is a very common error and I can point you to a slew of posts on the topic - this one here, though WAMP based is quite good: DeveloperSide.NET (accessed: 07/02/2016). But hold on