On a recent project the security team insisted all traffic between Redis and web server be encrypted. As you know Redis doesn’t support SSL so I looked around at a few solutions. A few people mentioned using an SSH tunnel, others stunnel and others still rolling your own SSL into Redis. Right away I dismissed […]
I have been using Redis for a few years now and it still surprises me. When I started using it, it was a simple key/value store, an incredibly fast one but still a key/value store. Every time I visit the commands page I find new and cool commands giving simple access to amazing functionality. In […]
Got a new bike. The BMW s1000rr. It is unbelievable, the power is exceptional. It is a few years old but has less than 1000 miles on the clock and is in pristine condition. They come with 193+ bhp from factory and you can feel it. Amazing machine. Looking forward to the next TT to […]
Smart internet is awesome.
Here is a neat trick to limit the amount of bandwidth you get from a specific IP or web address. I setup a box for my last company that used this technique to simulate sever and client being in different locations, great for performance testing. It uses a BSD command called ipfw or IP Firewall, […]
I’ve been using my hackintosh for a good bit now and its fully updated. I recently got a Dell X1300 pro 256 MB (RV516) PCI-e graphics card. It seems this is some hybrid card which is branded as an X1550 else where and has a different ID on each output. This means the card can […]
If you’re uploading files, you of course use localhostr, well now you can do it without opening a web browser. Here are apps for both Windows & Mac to put files on localhostr straight from the desktop. Find out about them on Jon’s blog or download them here.
For my FYP (Final Year Project in College) I needed to take thumbnails of web pages and I couldn’t find a solution online that worked. There was only one entry I could find in relation to it and that didn’t seem to work either, but did give me an idea. I looped through the contents […]
Okay, after about two years of neglect I’ve final updated the site. I will be putting all my software back up soon (ieasypod, Easyriver…..etc) and hopefully some new stuff.