by Russell | Jul 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
It is still a mystery to me why she said “Yes” when I asked her but she did and on July 8, 2006, this beautiful lady married me. She is pretty, smart, funny and, lucky for me, tolerant!In celebration I am posting these links. Not really of...
by Russell | Apr 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
As part of our normal review of such things I ran an SSL Labs test on our sites only to discover that we now had double header entries in our responses for Strict-Transport-Security.Not a terrible thing but the SSL test does point it out and after some examination I...
by Russell | Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Over the last three weeks I’ve had the pleasure of upgrading my laptop and also my desktop machines. Since I’ve done it twice recently and I find these lists helpful on occasion, I thought I would quickly post the software I find I actually need on a...
by Russell | Nov 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Learned a valuable lesson last week which can essentially be summed up as “Don’t use this setting.”The purpose of this setting is ostensibly to introspect the current user’s time zone via their web browser and it does so by adding a small...
by Russell | Aug 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Let me start by saying that I am a huge proponent of open-source software, specifically The Apache Foundation collection of code. I’m a Java developer who writes code for IBM platforms, and I almost always find their tools to be adequate for the task at hand....
by Russell | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
On July 2, I posted Please Read: One week from strep throat to amputation and possible death.If you don’t already know about Sepsis, please educate yourself.Cathy has survived the amputations (her last surgery related to those was yesterday), got off the...
by Russell | Jul 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is not pleasant but this experience has and is moving me to get this message out:Educate yourself about sepsis and septic shock. Right now. Here’s a link to get you started: http://www.sepsisalliance.org/.Right now a 48 year old woman with...
by Russell | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Read a post from Julian Buss the other day about what he has done recently and it reminded me of something I wanted to post.First, business is going very well. We just added more staff and more customers in what is typically our off-season and we’re...
by Russell | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Not XPages but still…a post is a post!The Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller provides a Web Application Firewall that can be used to protect against various attack vectors including the OWASP Top 10.Configuring the AppFw is no mean feat....
by Russell | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve been having some troubles with my Fusion VMs getting corrupted intermittently over the last several months.VM no longer being backed up by Time Machine? Check.Computer no longer allowed to sleep. Ever? Check.VM needs to...
