by Peter Connolly | Feb 19, 2013 | Ubuntu
There are lots of tutorials on the internet defining what the best Ubuntu command prompt is, and I’ve worked through a lot of them. They all seem to have a similar format: username, then the folder you’re in (some also add the time, the history number of...
by Peter Connolly | Feb 6, 2013 | Management, technology
Let’s start at the beginning; why sftp? Well, would you transmit your private details (including your password) in plain text? No? Well, FTP does. FTP is one of several protocols on a computer that transmits usernames and passwords in plain text across the...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 27, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
It’s a bit of a common question (in the Ruby on Rails world, at least!). I came across this issue this morning when I copied an existing ThinkingSphinx yml file from a working system. Symptoms: Running rake ts:rebuild would rebuild the database, but would not...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 14, 2011 | featured, MySQL
One of a short series of posts listing useful MySQL commands that I use frequently when managing servers and databases. These come in useful when I don’t have access to Navicat, my favored tool for working with client databases. The assumption I make is that you...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 10, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails
When playing with Thinking Sphinx (the Ruby on Rails wrapper for the open source Sphinx search server), I decided to try to see if I could perform an injection attack on the server. Here’s the bad news: Yes, I could modify searches by changing the parameters...
