CentOS 7, DNS and firewalld
Yesterday I needed to setup a local DNS server. Sure, I could’ve used Windows but, mostly for licensing reasons, decided that using a free OS
January 18, 2015
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Yesterday I needed to setup a local DNS server. Sure, I could’ve used Windows but, mostly for licensing reasons, decided that using a free OS
I’ve got a few PHP libraries and classes that I use regularly and, since making the decision to base all my projects on the Laravel
Like most websites, my current project requires users to login. For security reasons, user sessions timeout after a while, leaving the user without an authenticated session. While
Yesterday I decided to get an action camera. The decision between a Garmin Virb and the latest GoPro is probably a topic for another article,
I’ve thought about writing a post like this for a while, but haven’t ever had a really good reason until now. As I write this,
I recently modified my dev environment to allow PHP 5.4 apps, something that involved adding a bunch of Debian Linux “wheezy” sources to my aptitude
Another one? Really? I’ll be the first to admit there there is a huge number of documents, websites, tutorials and guides already available for what
I’m a bit of a n00b when it comes to doing stuff in JavaScript. So naturally, when I find a way of introducing a bit
Most VMware administrators will know that it’s possible to run VMware vCenter on one server and have the vSphere SQL database on another server. This is
Coda 2 Coda 2, one of my favourite code editors, was released on May 24th 2012 to a somewhat underwhelming reception, in my opinion. To be
Recently I’ve been setting up new websites left, right and center. These have been almost exclusively for testing purposes and, since I’ve been basing them all
The Problem While setting up our partner technology centre recently, I found myself switching back and forth between networks so often that I was constantly
Back in February 2011 I wrote an article called Running HandBrakeCLI from Hazel that described how to setup Hazel for Mac to automatically run Handbrake
Introduction This article is going to be a long one so sit back, relax (if you can) and get ready to do some EE hacking
Today I threw together a quick plugin as I couldn’t find an easy way of doing what I wanted without putting JavaScript in my templates. The
As part of helping a friend with some system support soon, I was sent a set of ssh keys so that I can access their
Back in March 2009 I wrote an article called "SQL Server 2008 Express Unattended Install" It turned out to be one of the most popular articles
Over the last day or so I’ve been trying to find a decent alternative to Yahoo’s Delicious online bookmarking service. It’s a service I’ve used for
Continuing with the theme of pimping various aspects of the OS X system configuration, today’s article covers how to use GeekTool 3 to display useful
Yesterday I published an article called "Pimp My Prompt … like Paul Irish" in which I showed how to make your BASH prompt similar to
There’s been a lot of talk lately about those cool colours that Paul Irish uses in his videos. If you don’t know who Paul Irish is
A few days ago I published an article that made my AppleScript backup ‘system’ available for download. One of the things missing from that article was
Why? Because I’m in I.T. I’m quite paranoid about my data and its safety. This is partly due to being responsible for the data for companies
On Saturday Erin & I went for a drive from our place in Brunswick to Sassafras, a small mountain village up in the Dandenong Ranges
If you know me, you know that I ride bikes from time to time. Ok, so that’s a bit of an understatement – if it wasn’t
Today’s article is something I haven’t done for a while – a review. If you’re someone that follows the not-often-enough-updated content on Digital Formula, you’ll
Today I finally got around to implementing Typekit on digitalformula.net. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages but because of other commitments I just
Over the last couple of days I’ve been hacking about with theming in OS X. It’s something I’ve always quite liked since back in the day
I’ve been really slack lately and also feeling a bit under the weather due to some pretty ridiculous work schedule commitments so my riding hasn’t
Before I started using my Macbook Pro as my only machine a few days ago, I had my iMac in the office and the MBP
If you’ve been involved with Geocaching before, you’ll know that sometimes the hides are just plain mean. Some of them are so tiny that you need
Recently I’ve been working on some video I shot back in 2009 while in Whistler, Canada on a mountain biking trip. I’ve been exporting them as
I recently upgraded my ExpressionEngine installation from version 2.1.1 to version 2.1.3 build 20101220. The installation worked fine but I found that the excellent extension from
On OS X I use Panic‘s excellent FTP application – Transmit. Yes, it’s an FTP client and one of the best there is, in my
I use iTunes to manage all my media now. Since I don’t use Windows anywhere at home I made the decision to add everything to iTunes,
It’s been so freakin’ hot recently that going out geocaching has been tough. It’s been an exhausting but worthwhile experience, though. Anyway, I got home from
I’ve been meaning to put this online for some time but kept forgetting to get it done. This article is simple and provides a small Excel
Even though I only wrote about Geocaching a day or so ago, I had to write another quick post to show another of the cool
Back in 2009 my friends Toni and Phil (now Mr and Mrs Cox!) introduced me to Geocaching. I took to it with a vengeance back then
At the end of last week Erin decided that her Erin King Photographer blog, while really nice and functional, needed a bit of a face-lift.
Finally, some clarity! When I started making the version of Digital Formula before this one, I decided to have a go at creating semantically-correct markup
I keep most of my primary files on my iMac. Needless to say, this would be a pretty dumb move if I kept them there,
On a number of sites now, including 5 main current ones, I’ve used HP Data Protector, one of HP’s enterprise-level backup software packages … depending
Why move ExpressionEngine? Good question! I run a local development environment at home so that I can simulate the production environment at ICDSoft as much
My current web development server is a Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.5 machine running under Parallels for Mac (which I’m trialling right now). It was all working
I've been doing a ton of web development lately and, since switching to Mac back in November 2009, it means all my local development is
One of the great features of ExpressionEngine is that you can change pretty much everything that affects layout. EE tags are a big part of
This post is intended as a couple of things. Firstly, it’s the 2nd rewrite of a post I wrote a while ago that covered the