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Here, you'll find articles to help you improve your web development skills, regardless of whether you're building them with PHP or Go, or need to grow your DevOps skills.
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Are You Too Wedded To Your Text Editor?
Mon, Sep 10, 2018

Are You Too Wedded To Your Text Editor?

I’ve been a proud VIM user for years — dating back as far as 1999 — but especially so, since I pushed myself to learn it properly a few short years ago. However, I wonder if I’ve become too wedded to it. And I’m keen to find out if you are too.

Google Chrome 69 Now Flags HTTP Websites
Mon, Sep 10, 2018

Google Chrome 69 Now Flags HTTP Websites

Earlier today, I upgraded my installation of Google Chrome from version 68 to version 69. While not a major upgrade, there’s a key security update that I want to draw your attention to. Here’s a quick look at it.

Do You Know How Much Location Data Google Records About You?
Tue, Aug 21, 2018

Do You Know How Much Location Data Google Records About You?

Last Wednesday, I was interviewed on Radio Sputnik (based out of Moscow) about a recent article on the Guardian about Google recording your location history — even when you tell it not to. This was my first experience as a subject matter expert. So I wanted to share the experience with you.

How To Write Burp Suite Match and Replace Rules
Tue, Aug 14, 2018

How To Write Burp Suite Match and Replace Rules

Burp Suite’s Match and Replace rules allow you to change parts of a request and a response — which can be a significant help when testing web applications. In this post, I’ll show you how to create them, so that you’ll know how your web applications will react under various conditions.

How Do You Start In The Tech Sector?
Thu, Aug 9, 2018

How Do You Start In The Tech Sector?

The tech sector, if you know what you’re doing, is easier than most fields to get started in. However, you do have to know what you’re doing. In this post, I’m going to step through a series of ways to get started, in case you’re not sure.

My Health Record - Do the Risks Outweigh the Advantages?
Tue, Jul 24, 2018

My Health Record - Do the Risks Outweigh the Advantages?

A new health record management system is going live in Australia soon. It’s called My Health Record. It will affect every Australian (and potentially temporary and permanent residents as well) as it will store some of their most intimate information — their health records! But do the risks of such a system outweigh the advantages?

Tue, Jun 26, 2018

What Are Delegator Factories and Why You Should Use Them

Ever wanted to dynamically expand the functionality of an object which you retrieve from your dependency injection container, based on different needs, yet without creating messy, hard to maintain configurations? Then you’re going to want to know about a powerful new technique - called Delegator Factories.

Are We Too Trusting With Our Online Privacy?
Tue, May 1, 2018

Are We Too Trusting With Our Online Privacy?

Have you ever stopped to wonder about just how trusting you are with your online privacy, and how much information you freely give away? Have you ever thought how savvy you are in the modern era, but how naive your parents and grandparents were? I believe we could be living in a much more naive time now. Here’s why.

Can You Still Trust Facebook With Your Online Privacy and Data?
Wed, Apr 25, 2018

Can You Still Trust Facebook With Your Online Privacy and Data?

In light of the recent Cambridge Analytica / Facebook scandal Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress. Did you tune in to hear what he said about what they knew? Were you keen to know more and about how they might be planning to protect your privacy in the future?


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