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The ability to display widgets within the locked screen was present through Android KitKat. Sadly, this useful feature is not in the latest Android OS. Security and functionality have always had a tenuous relationship. In order to be absolutely functional, a system must allow everything. To make a system truly secure, it must allow nothing. […]
Why would I want to make a Jinja2 filter? While Ansible Modules are the main way you accomplish something in Ansible, Jinja2 Filters are the main way you manipulate data. The first python code you’ll need to write in ansible is probably because you want to transform some data to send to a module or […]
In a previous blog I went over how to set up headless tests on a centos machine; in this blog, I will be going over how to introduce this machine into a continuous integration environment via Jenkins. The first thing that we need to do is install the Xvfb plugin on the Jenkins instance, which […]
Subversion or SVN is a version control system that has been around for over 15 years and was the industry standard before the arrival of Git. Although Git is far superior to SVN, a lot of places are still tied to SVN for any number of reasons. I was exposed to and worked with only […]
OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of my favorite tools for scanning and performing vulnerability tests on a web application. It has a simple GUI to get started, with a large capability for customization to tailor scans as needed. Recently, I was faced with a problem to login and then scan the authenticated segments of […]
Zephyr Plugin is the solution for Agile Testing if you are already using JIRA in your Agile Software Management as a tool for issue tracking and project management, and want to integrate test management into the same system. It adds many new features to JIRA: Collaboration Test Cases Writing, Reviewing, Executing, Verify Test Results. Formal […]
It seems like more often we hear stories of another security breach at our favorite retailer, bank, or some place that has our sensitive data. Any organization that has been entrusted to protect sensitive information should have solid security practices in place. Once a hacker has accessed your system it’s all over. The most expensive […]
On my last two posts I went through setting up CI for your PHP project. While I promised this post would cover setting up CD for your pipeline, I realized that I left out a fairly useful (but in my mind unique) part of the process. Our PHP application is using Laravel as the back […]
Ivy – Ant Dependency Bolt On My last assignment introduced me to Gradle. My experiences have let me run the trifecta for build tools: Ant, Maven, and Gradle. However last time I used Ant, Ivy was not managing the dependencies. Versus Maven and Gradle that have automatic dependency resolution built in. What is automatic dependency resolution? In […]
Any developer who has ever opened up a pom file on a large project will be familiar with the seemingly infinite number of dependences which make governance nearly impossible. Thankfully, Sonatype is making our job a little bit easier with Nexus Firewall–a tool which allows system administrators the ability to craft policies to limit which […]
