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Murray Grant
Murray Grant has not set their biography yet
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File Synchronisation with Unison
As a web developer, one of my code tasks is to deploy a website to a live environment. This boils down to copying lots of files in lots folders from my development environment (a Windows 7 computer) to a live environment (could be Linux or Windows). To give you an idea of what "lots" can be, a typical Magento installation without any customisations ...Dec 19 -
Implementing a workflow in Magento
Last week we completed and went live with a client's revamped website. The site was based on Mangento, but has a big twist to it: users needed to follow specific workflow.... ...Dec 16 -
Security 101 - Use Minimum Permissions
At Far Edge we've been working with a client who had a compromised website (not because of our software). He'd been blacklisted for sending spam among other things. After our sys-admin guys had tidied up the server itself, I was asked to take a look through the web application source code for security problems.... ...Dec 09 -
Security 101 - Unsanitised User Input
At Far Edge we've been working with a client who had a compromised website (not because of our software). He'd been blacklisted for sending spam among other things. After our sys-admin guys had tidied up the server itself, I was asked to take a look through the web application source code for security problems. 3 presented themselves.... ...Dec 09 -
Security 101 - 3rd Party Components
At Far Edge we've been working with a client who had a compromised website (not because of our software). He'd been blacklisted for sending spam among other things. After our sys-admin guys had tidied up the server itself, I was asked to take a look through the web application source code for security problems. 3 presented themselves.... ...Dec 09 -
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Kolan Bottle
Kolan Bottle (Master of Business Administration (Finance) [in progress], PRINCE 2 Certified Project Manager , B. Engineering (Mechanical)) has over 10 years experience in IT with a strong back ground in process re-engineering, IT Testing, project management and account/relationship management.
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Changing Server for a Product Deployment
As a project manager, when a new server is required for an existing product there are alot of tasks and risks they have to be aware of. Questions to resolve:... ...Nov 24 -
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Chris Herrmann
Chris Herrmann has not set their biography yet
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Linking Confluence to SBS Active Directory and filtering by groups... how to actually make it work
We recently migrated our internal Knowledge Base to Confluence. Part of the process involved linking Confluence to Active Directory... one directory to rule them all... one directory to bind them... Anyway. Doing the basic connectivity part is easy - simply following the prompts should successfully link your new Confluence instance to AD, BUT what ...May 05 -
Making Joomla Update work behind a proxy Update: :Collection: Could not open http://update.joomla.org/core/list.xml
If you have Joomla installed behind a proxy (like squid, for example) then you will not be able to use the Joomla Update feature - found under Extension Manager / Updates. When you do you'll get errors like: Update: :Collection: Could not open http://update.joomla.org/core/list.xml... ...Apr 10 -
Creating a customised conditional feedback email in Request Tracker when a ticket is resolved
This article assumes that you're running, and familiar with administering Request Tracker. The notes are accurate for 3.8.7, and it may differ for other versions. Hopefully it'll get you a long way to solving it though, and the RT user lists are pretty good - http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users. Something we've wanted ...Apr 10 -
Sharing Exchange 2003 folders when the user doesn't have Outlook
Scenario: User #1 wants to share calendar in Outlook / Exchange with user #2. User #1 does not have Outlook. User #2 does. ... ...Apr 05 -
Allowing RWW on SBS 2003 & Windows 7 to play nicely - group policy / adm template howto
If you're trying to RWW to a Windows 7 PC that is joined to an SBS 2003 domain, you may be seeing a popup error along the lines of " vbscript +"an internal error has occurred". In this scenario, RWW portal doesn't allow you to connect, but you can RDP successfully from your PC directly to the target PC in question. Assuming that you've covered off ...Feb 13 -
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Brad Carter
Brad Carter has not set their biography yet
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Windows cannot complete the password change error 0x800708c5
A client called saying that she believed that someone has access her computer and changed her password as she was unable to log in. As a precaution we attempted to reset the password, but when trying to do so from within Active Directory Users & Computers it returned the error "Windows cannot complete the password change error 0x800708c ...Dec 14 -
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Meet the two newest members of our team
We're pleased to welcome the two newest members of our team - responsible for security and social events. ... ...Jan 17 -
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