Author Archives: Adrian

Installing Grails on CentOS

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Adrian

Grails (grails.org) is an open source web application framework which uses the Groovy programming language, which is based on Java. The official website contains comprehensive installation documentation, but this tends to be biased towards Debian/Ubuntu distros, with Red Hat/CentOS less … Continue reading →

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Basic WordPress Security

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Adrian

WordPress is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems (CMS) available, with over 25 million users worldwide. The core codebase is extremely secure, but it is all too easy to introduce vulnerabilities into your system. The first … Continue reading →

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Be careful Upgrading PHP!

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Adrian

The PHP development team is advising users to avoid updating to version 5.3.7, released last week, after a serious bug was found in one of the cryptographic functions. The issue effects the crypt function, used to encrypt and decrypt a … Continue reading →

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