I’ve been thinking way too much about the SyFy series “Blood Drive.”
Author: David Smith
Location Awareness in Proxy PAC Files
Over the last few weeks, as mentioned before, my colleagues and I have been working to implement a proxy server solution. One of the more aggressive bugbears we’ve fought is the size and complexity of our network — we have dozens of different network segments, some of which have pre-existing proxies, many of which are […]
Uncle Dave’s Proxy Toolkit
At work, I’ve spent much of the last several weeks working on deploying a proxy service. A proxy is a service that can retrieve and cache Web pages on behalf of a large number of users. In theory, you can use it to save bandwidth and protect your users by stopping viruses and such before […]
Yoast vs. The Enterprise
No, not that Enterprise. Nope. Try again. This is about “the enterprise,” the notion of organizations that upgrade software less often than once every six weeks, and one vendor that wants to push things along, no matter the cost to the users…
Super-Simple Self-Extracting Installer with NSIS
I had a software installer that needs to be distributed with its license key, but in a way that keeps the users safe from themselves, and us safe from auditors. Find out how I did this in about an hour with NSIS below…
WordCamp St. Louis 2016 Presentation
Here’s a link to my slides for the #wcstl presentation “Making Simple Things Really Complicated: High Availability for WordPress”. Enjoy! Someday soon, I’ll try to pull out the most important notes from the slides and put them here, to make the search engines happy. (Or can Google and friends handle PDFs these days? I really don’t […]
Cisco ASA 5505 Notes
A while back, I picked up a Cisco ASA 5505 for cheap on eBay. This is where I’ll be putting my notes on configuring, updating, et cetera… Over the next few days at least, I’ll probably be updating this entry frequently, as I continue to experiment with the 5505, and learn what I need to […]
Managing Dozens of WordPress Sites with InfiniteWP
If you have anything to do with building or maintaining a Web site these days, there’s a decent chance the site uses WordPress. One study shows WordPress being responsible for over half of the 100 most popular blogs online. Another source from two years ago says WordPress is the engine for over 60 million Web […]
Easy Email Encryption
Google, trying to live up to their old “Don’t be evil” slogan, recently announced that they’re working on an end-to-end email encryption extension for the Chrome browser. And they’re not doing anything weird or proprietary; they’re building an implementation of PGP, in JavaScript.
IIS 8 Workshop Notes
$WORK paid for me to attend a three-day class on IIS 8. “IIS Administration, Troubleshooting, and Best Practices.” Since I’ve gotta take notes anyway…