Robby Pedrica

Email delivery and other issues

by Robby Pedrica 31 October 2012 Technology

Email is still the single most used communications tool on the internet and will probably remain so for some time to come. We send in the region of 300 Billion emails per day and for the most part, everything just works. On the face of it, email is simple: compose, address and send. But behind [...]

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Who is looking at who?

by Robby Pedrica 6 July 2012 Commentary

Analysis of website usage is a huge part of understanding how to improve websites, how to give visitors a better surfing experience and how to maximise the time a visitor spends on a site ( potentially purchasing items while they are there ). SEO, or search engine optimisation, goes hand in hand with site analysis [...]

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Tagged as: Applications, Commentary, Cybercrime, internet

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PHP Applications: Pt 4 – SquirrelMail

by Robby Pedrica 19 October 2011 Applications

Squirrelmail is one of the old guard, starting life out in 1999 already. Written to HTML 4 specs, SqM tries to be as compatible as possible with the widest range of browsers. This also alludes to the fact that SqM is bare-bones at the core, with standard email functionality and not much more. The idea [...]

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PHP Applications: Pt 3 – Dokuwiki

by Robby Pedrica 11 October 2011 Applications

Wikis have come of age in the last few years, and provide a means of collating and storing documentation in a shared manner without the overhead of a full document management system. Dokuwiki itself is a flat file-based solution making backups, management and installation straightforward. Installation is as simple as transferring the installation files to [...]

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PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin

by Robby Pedrica 22 September 2011 Applications

No discussion of MySQL is complete without mentioning phpMyAdmin, ( in my opinion ) the best web-based management tool around. PMA has grown from a simple web client to a full featured MySQL management interface with a lot of bells and whistles. The current release of PMA ( 3.4.x ) requires at minimum php 5.2 [...]

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Tagged as: Applications, database, internet

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PHP Applications: Pt 1 – Mantis

by Robby Pedrica 19 September 2011 Applications

I’ll be doing a series of articles on PHP applications over the next few weeks and months. As a preface to these, some background is necessary. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that was inked with Web development in mind, and it produces dynamic web pages. PHP pages are interpreted on the fly using a [...]

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Are the clouds gone yet?

by Robby Pedrica 10 September 2011 Cloud

It seems that Microsoft ( and others ) is intent on validating my cynical view of clouds. The latest Microsoft outage ( last night and this morning again ) was caused by what the company vaguely called a “DNS issue” and affected not just Office 365 but also the consumer services Hotmail and SkyDrive. The [...]

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Tagged as: Cloud, internet, virtualization

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CA’s hacked

by Robby Pedrica 7 September 2011 Security

Wow, it really has been a bad week for Certificate Authorities. First DigiNotar gets cracked by a seemingly insistent CA cracker called ComodoHacker; now GlobalSign has stopped processing certificate requests due to possible compromise by the same cracker. It all started in March this year with the Comodo CA breach. Next was StartCom the Israeli [...]

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The Cloud, Security and IT skills

by Robby Pedrica 6 September 2011 Applications

Seeing as everyone is writing about Cloud Computing lately, I thought I’d rehash some of my concerns about this ‘new’  technology. New in parenthesis because the idea is actually quite old, coming from the time-sharing Unix systems of the 60′s and 70′s. Cloud obviously takes this to a new level ( supposedly with non-stop availability [...]

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Sony’s PSN hacked

by Robby Pedrica 27 April 2011 Cloud

As you may have gauged from other posts, Sony has never been a favourite of mine. Their recent activity in suing George Hotz for hacking the Playstation  3 ( after they removed the OtherOS function ) means I’m even less enamoured with them. But the final nail may have just been struck: the Playstation Network [...]

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