Hi, I tend to write articles about programming and technical subjects on this blog. I also maintain a number of open source projects. Occasionally I like to talk about motorbikes and cars.

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Improve PHP session cookie security

The security of session handling in PHP can easily be enhanced through the use of a few configuration settings and the addition of an SSL certificate. Whilst this topic has been covered numerous times before it still bears mentioning with a large number of PHP sites and servers having not ...

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3 things I set on new servers

There are a number of things you can do to make a server more secure whilst protecting your hosted entities and their users. Here are just three of the many things I do on every new server I commission. I hasten to add that these are not necessarily the most ...

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Install Netbeans and Scala on Ubuntu

If you want to install and run the latest version of Scala and/or Netbeans then you cannot simply install it from your distributions repositories or pre-built packages. It may sound easy enough to just grab Netbeans from their site and install it, but most Linux distributions no longer have ...

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