Adding Extra Security – Encrypting Passwords For Multiple Users

As many of you probably know, I’ve been working for quite some time on a project called Private Passwords . It is an online password management tool which stores your passwords for any site and allows you to retrieve them from anywhere in the world. One of the things that has niggled me for a while was the fact that the encrypted passwords were all encrypted using an AES encryption key , but had no real barrier if someone somehow managed to get hold of the AES key

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Adding Extra Security – Encrypting Passwords For Multiple Users

Alton Towers Review 2010

I’m doing absolutely everything I can to avoid the World Cup football. In doing so we ended up at Alton Towers (handily a 30 minute drive from Hannah’s mum’s) on Monday

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Alton Towers Review 2010

Question: How does source control work in a non-distributed environment?

At our company we currently all work on one shared network drive. The source code is not under any kind of source control, which for me is a big no-no. I’d love to be able to set up SVN and us all work of separate repositories and just commit back to a trunk or branch, but our tech manager doesn’t agree.

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Question: How does source control work in a non-distributed environment?

Strangers in the same boat – Christmas 2009

This used to be the ‘hello world’ post. It’s taken from July to now – that’s 5 months – to pick a theme for my blog and then get around to editing it. I’m quite inclined to say that that’s pretty rubbish, but I won’t, because that’s the usual response I have to these kind of things.

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Strangers in the same boat – Christmas 2009

Getting to know you:

1. What time did you get up this morning?………………….7.30 2. How do you like your steak?………………….

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Wordpress 2.8 automatic upgrade fails

I’ve been trying to update my wordpress blogs from various versions like 2.5 and 2.7 to the newest 2.8 for a while now, but was never able to do it automatically. Every time I pressed the “upgrade automatically” button, it told me it was downloading the latest file from Wordpress, but it never got any further than that. I logged in to my site using my FTP client and found a 0KB sized file called wordpress2.8.zip in the wp_content folder, so I thought I’d found the issue – maybe the script can’t actually download the file and save it to disk because of permissions

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Wordpress 2.8 automatic upgrade fails

Ubuntu One – Taking Linux To The Clouds

I opened Google Mail on my HTC Magic this morning to find a lovely invitation to the Ubuntu One beta, woot. So I grabbed my shiny Sony Vaio laptop and fired it up, and got straight on with it

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Ubuntu One – Taking Linux To The Clouds

Bing – A blip, or something more?

Now that the fuss over Bing ’s launch is already over (that didn’t last long, did it?), what is the future for it?

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Bing - A blip, or something more?

Installing Zend Framework 1.8.x on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using SVN

With the release of the 1.8 series of Zend Framework, I felt the need to update this article , especially due to the entirely new project setup process provided by Zend_Tool. Again, we start with installing the LAMP stack if you haven’t done so already: sudo tasksel install lamp-server So now you’ve got your LAMP stack up and running, lets download the latest SVN tag of Zend Framework. At the time of writing, the latest stable is 1.8.1, which I’ll use here

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Installing Zend Framework 1.8.x on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using SVN

MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum