When creating web apps, there’s often a need to generate a random password for your users. There are a number of ways to do this, but in needing to do this recently I came up with this very simple function that will generate a password (or other random string) of whatever length you wish.
Posts with tag: Security
How to track if companies are selling your email address
I recently learned a handy little trick for tracking what companies do with your email address when you sign up for their newsletters, or enter a competition, or they find some other way to sucker you in to giving them your personal information. The only requirement for being able to do this is to have your own domain.
Monitor WordPress activity (including hack attempts)
When building a Wordpress site for a client, it’s helpful to know how they’re using the site and what they get up to with regards to content management. It’s also sometimes useful to know if any of those dastardly hackers that we hear so much about are trying to access the site’s sensitive information.
How Google’s 2-step verification process works
Recently, the almighty Google launched a more secure way of logging in to your account – they call it the 2-step verification process (it’s not just a clever name, the new login process does actually require 2 steps). The whole thing sounds a bit complex when reading Google’s description of it, but it’s really rather simple. Here is a run down of how it works and how it will benefit you.
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Using Nutch and Solr to crawl and index the web
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Code Snippet: A custom Twitter feed for your website
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Experiment: Streamlining my online content using ifttt & tumblr
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My top (free) recommended Android apps
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