Tag Archives: best practices

Hacking skills as determined by a politician

Posted on December 7, 2021 by DocDock

Words have meaning and it is a bit disturbing when you read an article or see a speech where they are being incorrectly used. The most recent example of this is how people use or refer to technology. When computers … Continue reading →

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Chasing the little green lock

Posted on September 25, 2018 by DocDock

I wanted for the longest time to both convert this blog from http to https. Computers are ever more powerful and my site is pretty simple – it should not have been a big deal.  Not only that but with the … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding security problems with find

Posted on April 9, 2018 by DocDock

I cannot actually remember how it happened.  I wasn’t paying enough attention and was viewing one of my scripts on production.  When I was finished I did what I always do in vi – I exited the script using : … Continue reading →

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Maven simple example

Posted on October 20, 2017 by DocDock

Maven was briefly described in my previous post.  In this post I will do a few small examples for actually using Maven. One of the main things about Maven is the idea of the artifact.  The artifact is a file, which … Continue reading →

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Maven the alternative build tool

Posted on October 10, 2017 by DocDock

Why maven Maven is a tool for building software. Doesn’t there already exist a number of tools for doing this exact task?  Two different tools that do this are the classic make utility or the much newer Apache Ant. The make utility … Continue reading →

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enhancing the privacy we still have

Posted on July 22, 2017 by DocDock

Is privacy is simply too much work? The problem is not that technology cannot help out but in my case it seems that I am constantly installing or setting up new computers or virtual machines and there is never the … Continue reading →

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Security in homogeneous systems

Posted on June 2, 2017 by DocDock

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been quite industrious in creating a new way[1] of tracking documents that could be “borrowed” from a person, business or government against the will of of that entity. This new document protection is the … Continue reading →

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Is Agile development the Emperors new clothes

Posted on May 9, 2017 by DocDock

I had the opportunity to take a class on Agile development recently, Scrum, and it was a fascinating way of doing development. I have been pretty lucky over my career that I have not been dragged through a lot of … Continue reading →

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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – final piece

Posted on December 11, 2016 by DocDock

This is essentially a refinement of the previous steps. I have added a lot of new list data but instead of being limited to what political party they are in or even if they like to party, I have extended … Continue reading →

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Machine generation of PDF files the easy way – part VI

Posted on December 6, 2016 by DocDock

The entire example report up until this point has been nice with a cool feature or two but terribly unrealistic. It is important to have the data in mind when creating the form but the form that I have created … Continue reading →

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