Library Program Technology in Ukraine & RomaniaMark Belinsky
The document discusses various topics related to Web 3.0 and new media such as cloud computing, wikis, blogs, social networking, crowdsourcing, analytics, and more. It also covers technologies like Dropbox, Delicious, Gmail, and formats like ebooks, QR codes, and podcasting. The document promotes joining the Digital Democracy organization on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
1. The document discusses speed and security as the active and passive components of a WordPress site. It provides tips to optimize speed through good hosting, CDNs, minification, and caching.
2. For security, it recommends prevention through regular backups, security plugins, and hardening measures. Common vulnerabilities include outdated plugins/themes and lack of security updates or measures.
3. Testing tools like GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights can evaluate page speed, but their recommendations shouldn't always be followed. Ignoring site speed can lead to abandonment issues.
Creating Secure Web Apps: What Every Developer Needs to Know About HTTPS TodayHeroku
Webinar recording here: https://www.heroku.com/tech-sessions/creating-secure-web-apps
Secure internet communication is one of the most important issues facing technology practitioners these days. But for many software development teams, it’s an afterthought. Almost every week there’s a new headline about web security: Google Chrome flagging non-HTTPS sites as insecure, Apple requiring iOS apps’ API communication to use HTTPS, and Google giving search ranking preference to HTTPS.
Join Josh Aas, Executive Director of Let's Encrypt, and Chris Castle, Developer Advocate from Heroku, as they take you on a quick tour of what you, as a developer, need to know about HTTPS today plus show you how Let's Encrypt and Heroku are making it easier than ever for all developers to add HTTPS to their web apps.
WordCamp Chicago 2011 - WordPress End User Security - Dre ArmedaDre Armeda
This document provides tips and advice for securing a WordPress website. It discusses the importance of updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, enabling HTTPS, limiting login access, using trusted themes and plugins, and regularly scanning websites for malware. The document also recommends resources for further information on WordPress and website security best practices.
A session by Pratik Jagdishwala on the best practices while securing your WordPress Powered website. The session was help in the Ctrl+F5 event organised by ResellerClub in cities across the country. The Presentation also includes tips on improving your WordPress powered website speed and performance. The concepts can be applied on WordPress or any other CMS powered website and even normal Websites.
This document provides 14 tips to prevent a WordPress website from being hacked. The key tips include:
1. Backing up the website regularly
2. Updating WordPress and plugins to the latest versions
3. Changing login credentials and using strong passwords
4. Modifying .htaccess files to restrict access to important directories and files
5. Installing security plugins like WP Security Scan to scan for vulnerabilities
WordPress Security document outlines security stats, a hack example, and top security tips. It provides recommendations to keep WordPress updated, secure login credentials, lock down admin access, use trusted sources for themes and plugins, and utilize security plugins and services like Login Lockdown, Sucuri Scanner, and Exploit Scanner. The document emphasizes the importance of common sense practices like strong unique passwords, backups, and limiting administrator accounts.
Library Program Technology in Ukraine & RomaniaMark Belinsky
The document discusses various topics related to Web 3.0 and new media such as cloud computing, wikis, blogs, social networking, crowdsourcing, analytics, and more. It also covers technologies like Dropbox, Delicious, Gmail, and formats like ebooks, QR codes, and podcasting. The document promotes joining the Digital Democracy organization on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
1. The document discusses speed and security as the active and passive components of a WordPress site. It provides tips to optimize speed through good hosting, CDNs, minification, and caching.
2. For security, it recommends prevention through regular backups, security plugins, and hardening measures. Common vulnerabilities include outdated plugins/themes and lack of security updates or measures.
3. Testing tools like GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights can evaluate page speed, but their recommendations shouldn't always be followed. Ignoring site speed can lead to abandonment issues.
Creating Secure Web Apps: What Every Developer Needs to Know About HTTPS TodayHeroku
Webinar recording here: https://www.heroku.com/tech-sessions/creating-secure-web-apps
Secure internet communication is one of the most important issues facing technology practitioners these days. But for many software development teams, it’s an afterthought. Almost every week there’s a new headline about web security: Google Chrome flagging non-HTTPS sites as insecure, Apple requiring iOS apps’ API communication to use HTTPS, and Google giving search ranking preference to HTTPS.
Join Josh Aas, Executive Director of Let's Encrypt, and Chris Castle, Developer Advocate from Heroku, as they take you on a quick tour of what you, as a developer, need to know about HTTPS today plus show you how Let's Encrypt and Heroku are making it easier than ever for all developers to add HTTPS to their web apps.
WordCamp Chicago 2011 - WordPress End User Security - Dre ArmedaDre Armeda
This document provides tips and advice for securing a WordPress website. It discusses the importance of updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, enabling HTTPS, limiting login access, using trusted themes and plugins, and regularly scanning websites for malware. The document also recommends resources for further information on WordPress and website security best practices.
A session by Pratik Jagdishwala on the best practices while securing your WordPress Powered website. The session was help in the Ctrl+F5 event organised by ResellerClub in cities across the country. The Presentation also includes tips on improving your WordPress powered website speed and performance. The concepts can be applied on WordPress or any other CMS powered website and even normal Websites.
This document provides 14 tips to prevent a WordPress website from being hacked. The key tips include:
1. Backing up the website regularly
2. Updating WordPress and plugins to the latest versions
3. Changing login credentials and using strong passwords
4. Modifying .htaccess files to restrict access to important directories and files
5. Installing security plugins like WP Security Scan to scan for vulnerabilities
WordPress Security document outlines security stats, a hack example, and top security tips. It provides recommendations to keep WordPress updated, secure login credentials, lock down admin access, use trusted sources for themes and plugins, and utilize security plugins and services like Login Lockdown, Sucuri Scanner, and Exploit Scanner. The document emphasizes the importance of common sense practices like strong unique passwords, backups, and limiting administrator accounts.
Presentation given at the WP Jyväksylä Meetup March 21st, 2017. This revised version contains references to the WordPress security news that circulated in February 2017.
This document outlines 8 ways to hack a WordPress site, including having an outdated WordPress core or plugins/themes, weak login credentials, malware, vulnerable server software, incorrect server configurations, and wrong file permissions. It provides examples for each vulnerability and recommends keeping everything updated, using strong passwords, proper permissions, and working with experienced administrators to secure a site.
Have you secured your WordPress blog against hackers who are out to use your site for illicit purposes? If not, you risk losing your content, your rankings, maybe even your business. Implement the tips in this presentation to confound anyone who tries to hack your site!
WordPress End-User Security - WordCamp Las Vegas 2011Dre Armeda
The document provides tips for securing a WordPress website, including updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, limiting login access, using SSL, scanning for malware, and choosing trusted themes and plugins. It recommends resources for security best practices and emphasizes that information security requires ongoing attention.
A number of tools and plugins are already available for the wordpress security audit for your site.
For more visit:https://acodez.in/wordpress-security-audit/
Improving WordPress Performance with Xdebug and PHP ProfilingOtto Kekäläinen
Presentation given at WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris 2017-06-16.
Xdebug is a tool for developers to gain insight into how PHP is executed. Using it for profiling is a very effective, fast and precise method to find bottlenecks in your WordPress site. In this talk I explain how to use it with Webgrind, how to find potential optimization targets, show examples of real cases when Xdebug helped fix a performance problem and also explain what Xdebug is not suitable for and what can be used instead. If you are not a developer, you’ll learn what Xdebug is capable of and when to ask a developer to use it.
The document discusses securing WordPress websites by changing passwords, file permissions, moving sensitive files like wp-config.php outside the root folder, using security plugins, and staying current on updates to prevent hackers from injecting spam links and files through vulnerabilities. It also provides recommendations for .htaccess rules, secret keys, and database prefixes to lock down WordPress admin access and the database.
This document provides an overview of Google hacking techniques. It explains that Google hacking involves using Google search operators and modifiers to identify vulnerabilities on websites. It then defines and provides examples for several common operators and modifiers like cache:, link:, related:, intitle:, and inurl:. It encourages combining these in searches and provides examples of effective Google hack searches.
WordPress Security Updated - NYC Meetup 2009Brad Williams
My updated WordPress Security presentation. Updated with more tips and information! This is a must read to keep your WordPress website safe!
Presented at the NYC WordPress Meetup on September 15, 2009
This document provides an overview of common WordPress security issues and recommendations for improving WordPress security. It discusses threats like encoded JavaScript, conditional redirects, pharma hacks and recommends updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, changing the database table prefix, and using secret keys to harden the WordPress installation. The document emphasizes having a comprehensive security approach from the local environment to hosting provider.
Presentation from webinar held on August 19th, 2020, with Xdebug developer Derick Rethans and Seravo CEO Otto Kekäläinen.
This presentation shows you how to use Xdebug (which is very easy with the Seravo WordPress development environment!) to make a record of what the WordPress PHP code does during a website page load, and how to use that information to optimize the performance of your WordPress site.
For a video recording and Dericks presentation see https://seravo.com/blog/webinar-xdebug-profile-php/
Slides from the Web Princess Professional Blog Clinic at #pbevent 2014 at QT Gold Coast.
A talk on how to manage the back end of your WordPress website responsibly
Protect Your WordPress From The Inside OutSiteGround.com
The recent spike of hack attempts on various WordPress sites has made it more urgent than ever to take actions and secure your WordPress in the best possible way. In this webinar the WebDevStudios founders show the best practices and share insightful tricks how to protect your WordPress from getting hacked:
- WordPress Security Threats & Trends
- WordPress Admin Security Settings
- Securing Files, Folders & Databases
- Bullet Proof Passwords
- Vulnerable WordPress Extensions
- Recommended Plugins & Services
The document discusses the OWASP Top Ten Project, which focuses on improving application security. It provides an overview of the top 10 security risks, including failure to restrict URI access, insecure communications, insecure cryptographic storage, broken authentication/sessions, information leakage, cross-site request forgery, insecure direct object references, malicious file execution, injection flaws, and cross-site scripting. For each risk, it offers brief explanations and recommendations for mitigation.
Less and faster – Cache tips for WordPress developersSeravo
Otto Kekäläinen, the code-loving CEO of Seravo held a webinar on May 12, 2020, that focused on the cache: what should a WordPress developer know and which are the best practices to follow?
Learn how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. Brad Williams from WebDevStudios.com shows examples of hacked sites, shares tips and plugins for keeping WordPress secure, and talks about his experiences with WordPress and security.
This document provides tips for securing blogs and podcasts that use WordPress or other content management systems. It recommends keeping all software updated, using strong passwords, backing up content regularly, and following general best practices like limiting access and protecting directories. Specific threats mentioned include hackers targeting popular platforms like WordPress, comment and advertising spam, and malware being inserted through vulnerabilities. The document stresses that security requires ongoing diligence as "you are on the hit list" and it is only a matter of time before a system is compromised if not properly maintained and monitored.
This document summarizes a presentation about using technology like iPads to enhance education. It discusses implementing iPads at a middle school by consulting teachers and tying the tech plan to the school's vision. Popular apps like Popplet, Educreations and Book Creator are highlighted for allowing students to show their understanding in creative ways. The presentation emphasizes using technology to foster collaboration, creativity and personalized learning through project-based activities and essential questions.
Presentation given at the WP Jyväksylä Meetup March 21st, 2017. This revised version contains references to the WordPress security news that circulated in February 2017.
This document outlines 8 ways to hack a WordPress site, including having an outdated WordPress core or plugins/themes, weak login credentials, malware, vulnerable server software, incorrect server configurations, and wrong file permissions. It provides examples for each vulnerability and recommends keeping everything updated, using strong passwords, proper permissions, and working with experienced administrators to secure a site.
Have you secured your WordPress blog against hackers who are out to use your site for illicit purposes? If not, you risk losing your content, your rankings, maybe even your business. Implement the tips in this presentation to confound anyone who tries to hack your site!
WordPress End-User Security - WordCamp Las Vegas 2011Dre Armeda
The document provides tips for securing a WordPress website, including updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, limiting login access, using SSL, scanning for malware, and choosing trusted themes and plugins. It recommends resources for security best practices and emphasizes that information security requires ongoing attention.
A number of tools and plugins are already available for the wordpress security audit for your site.
For more visit:https://acodez.in/wordpress-security-audit/
Improving WordPress Performance with Xdebug and PHP ProfilingOtto Kekäläinen
Presentation given at WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris 2017-06-16.
Xdebug is a tool for developers to gain insight into how PHP is executed. Using it for profiling is a very effective, fast and precise method to find bottlenecks in your WordPress site. In this talk I explain how to use it with Webgrind, how to find potential optimization targets, show examples of real cases when Xdebug helped fix a performance problem and also explain what Xdebug is not suitable for and what can be used instead. If you are not a developer, you’ll learn what Xdebug is capable of and when to ask a developer to use it.
The document discusses securing WordPress websites by changing passwords, file permissions, moving sensitive files like wp-config.php outside the root folder, using security plugins, and staying current on updates to prevent hackers from injecting spam links and files through vulnerabilities. It also provides recommendations for .htaccess rules, secret keys, and database prefixes to lock down WordPress admin access and the database.
This document provides an overview of Google hacking techniques. It explains that Google hacking involves using Google search operators and modifiers to identify vulnerabilities on websites. It then defines and provides examples for several common operators and modifiers like cache:, link:, related:, intitle:, and inurl:. It encourages combining these in searches and provides examples of effective Google hack searches.
WordPress Security Updated - NYC Meetup 2009Brad Williams
My updated WordPress Security presentation. Updated with more tips and information! This is a must read to keep your WordPress website safe!
Presented at the NYC WordPress Meetup on September 15, 2009
This document provides an overview of common WordPress security issues and recommendations for improving WordPress security. It discusses threats like encoded JavaScript, conditional redirects, pharma hacks and recommends updating WordPress and plugins regularly, using strong passwords and passphrases, changing the database table prefix, and using secret keys to harden the WordPress installation. The document emphasizes having a comprehensive security approach from the local environment to hosting provider.
Presentation from webinar held on August 19th, 2020, with Xdebug developer Derick Rethans and Seravo CEO Otto Kekäläinen.
This presentation shows you how to use Xdebug (which is very easy with the Seravo WordPress development environment!) to make a record of what the WordPress PHP code does during a website page load, and how to use that information to optimize the performance of your WordPress site.
For a video recording and Dericks presentation see https://seravo.com/blog/webinar-xdebug-profile-php/
Slides from the Web Princess Professional Blog Clinic at #pbevent 2014 at QT Gold Coast.
A talk on how to manage the back end of your WordPress website responsibly
Protect Your WordPress From The Inside OutSiteGround.com
The recent spike of hack attempts on various WordPress sites has made it more urgent than ever to take actions and secure your WordPress in the best possible way. In this webinar the WebDevStudios founders show the best practices and share insightful tricks how to protect your WordPress from getting hacked:
- WordPress Security Threats & Trends
- WordPress Admin Security Settings
- Securing Files, Folders & Databases
- Bullet Proof Passwords
- Vulnerable WordPress Extensions
- Recommended Plugins & Services
The document discusses the OWASP Top Ten Project, which focuses on improving application security. It provides an overview of the top 10 security risks, including failure to restrict URI access, insecure communications, insecure cryptographic storage, broken authentication/sessions, information leakage, cross-site request forgery, insecure direct object references, malicious file execution, injection flaws, and cross-site scripting. For each risk, it offers brief explanations and recommendations for mitigation.
Less and faster – Cache tips for WordPress developersSeravo
Otto Kekäläinen, the code-loving CEO of Seravo held a webinar on May 12, 2020, that focused on the cache: what should a WordPress developer know and which are the best practices to follow?
Learn how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. Brad Williams from WebDevStudios.com shows examples of hacked sites, shares tips and plugins for keeping WordPress secure, and talks about his experiences with WordPress and security.
This document provides tips for securing blogs and podcasts that use WordPress or other content management systems. It recommends keeping all software updated, using strong passwords, backing up content regularly, and following general best practices like limiting access and protecting directories. Specific threats mentioned include hackers targeting popular platforms like WordPress, comment and advertising spam, and malware being inserted through vulnerabilities. The document stresses that security requires ongoing diligence as "you are on the hit list" and it is only a matter of time before a system is compromised if not properly maintained and monitored.
This document summarizes a presentation about using technology like iPads to enhance education. It discusses implementing iPads at a middle school by consulting teachers and tying the tech plan to the school's vision. Popular apps like Popplet, Educreations and Book Creator are highlighted for allowing students to show their understanding in creative ways. The presentation emphasizes using technology to foster collaboration, creativity and personalized learning through project-based activities and essential questions.
Innovation In Education Using Social MediaBrian Lockrey
This document discusses using social media in education to foster innovation. It outlines various social networking and media tools that can be used, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and wikis. These tools allow students and teachers to collaborate by sharing content, ideas and engaging in discussions. When implemented properly with a focus on security, social media can facilitate collaboration both within and between classrooms worldwide to enhance the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
The document discusses innovating in education and educating for innovation. It argues that incremental innovations often fail in education systems due to inertia, while disruptive innovations that grow on the margins can succeed by changing systems over time. The document proposes establishing partnerships between researchers and teachers to conduct action-research projects, with mixed teams assessing challenges and progress. This would support sustained system innovation, cultural change, and making students more creative and innovative.
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Javascript security, XSS & CSRFMark Stanton
This document discusses common JavaScript security vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and clickjacking. It defines these issues and provides examples of real attacks. The document also outlines solutions for developers, including sanitizing input, escaping output, minimizing the attack surface, and designing with the assumption of breaches. Overall it stresses the importance of a holistic, multi-layered approach to JavaScript security.
This document describes the architecture and scaling challenges faced by myYearbook.com, a social networking site for teenagers. It details how the site grew from handling 100 million pageviews per month in 2007 with one database and web server, to 2.5 billion pageviews per month in 2008 using 30 database and 120 web application servers. Key lessons learned include migrating to a services-oriented architecture, horizontal and vertical scaling of PostgreSQL databases, implementing memcache, and developing internal tools like Staplr for trend analysis and an operations portal.
This document describes the architecture and scaling challenges faced by myYearbook.com, a social networking site for teenagers. It details how the site grew from handling 100 million pageviews per month in 2007 with one database and web server, to 2.5 billion pageviews per month in 2008 using 30 database and 120 web application servers. Key lessons learned include migrating to a services-oriented architecture, horizontal and vertical scaling of PostgreSQL databases, implementing memcache, and developing internal tools like Staplr for trend analysis and an operations portal.
This document discusses various security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications and provides recommendations for mitigating risks. It covers issues like cross-site scripting, mass assignment vulnerabilities, privilege escalation, sensitive data exposure, weak authentication practices, and risks associated with file uploads. Recommendations include sanitizing user input, using strong encryption and authentication, carefully validating file types and metadata, and following security best practices for admin panels. The goal is to help Rails developers build more secure applications by closing common security holes.
The document discusses Model-View-Controller (MVC), an architectural pattern commonly used for web development. It provides definitions and examples of MVC components including the Model, View and Controller. It also discusses how MVC is implemented in various PHP frameworks and the benefits of using MVC, such as improved code organization, maintenance and extensibility. Popular PHP MVC frameworks mentioned include CakePHP, Symfony, and CodeIgniter.
The document describes the Glasgow Reversing Club, which focuses on the topic of reverse engineering (RE). RE is the process of understanding an existing product like software or hardware by analyzing its components and functionality. The club aims to teach experienced and inexperienced individuals about RE through online tutorials, seminars from security experts, and reversing challenges. It also promotes social activities for members like games and showcasing hacking projects. The document provides examples of RE applications like malware analysis and outlines legal and illegal uses of the practice.
Drupal is a content management system (CMS) that allows users to build various types of websites. It was created in 1999 and is currently on version 5.1. Drupal is open source and has a large community of over 600 developers contributing to its core and over 800 contributing additional modules. It has a modular architecture that provides many features out of the box like blogging, forums, searching and multi-language support. While it has a learning curve due to its use of PHP, it is highly customizable and has a good developer community for support.
Performance, Games, and Distributed Testing in JavaScriptjeresig
This document discusses various techniques for measuring and optimizing JavaScript performance, including profiling tools in browsers like Firebug and Safari. It also addresses challenges in building multiplayer JavaScript games, such as latency issues, and proposes solutions like combining elements of strategy, intelligence and accuracy. The document concludes by covering distributed and automated testing techniques like TestSwarm that can help address challenges of testing JavaScript across many browsers and platforms.
The document provides information about a Drupal training session on fixing a broken Drupal site. It includes an agenda for the lab session which involves fixing issues related to site building, security, performance, and content architecture through exercises. Participants will be split into teams and each given a broken Drupal site to work on fixing. Automated tools and techniques for profiling site performance will be demonstrated.
This document provides information on blogging platforms and how to set up a blog. It discusses Blogger and WordPress as hosted blogging solutions that don't require web hosting, and self-hosted WordPress which provides more flexibility but requires web hosting. It then outlines the steps needed to set up a self-hosted WordPress blog, including obtaining a domain name, web hosting, downloading and installing WordPress, configuring the database, adding themes and plugins, and basic administration of the blog. Tips are also provided on blog content, traffic, translation, and resources for support.
MojoMojo is a web 2.0 wiki built with Perl technologies like Catalyst and DBIx-Class. It features AJAX-powered trees, RSS feeds, version control, internationalization, tagging, permissions, attachments, searching, and more. It has been under development for 4 years as an open source project hosted on GitHub, where community members can contribute or request commit access. Support is available commercially for installation, customization, and support.
Administrivia: Golden Tips for Making JIRA HumAtlassian
This document provides tips and best practices for administering JIRA. It discusses perspectives from Atlassian Support and from administering JIRA at Polycom. Key tips include using roles instead of groups, using workflow drafts, limiting custom fields and administrators, testing changes on staging instances, and documenting all changes made to the JIRA configuration. The document also provides an overview of the JIRA installation at Polycom and tips for migrating issues from other systems into JIRA.
Administrivia: Golden Tips for Making JIRA HumAtlassian
This document provides tips and best practices for administering JIRA. It discusses:
1) Tips from an Atlassian support perspective, including knowing your JIRA configuration, using simple configurations, and avoiding common problems through testing.
2) Tips from administering JIRA at Polycom, including buying the Enterprise edition, determining requirements, developing standards, and migrating issues from other systems.
3) Best practices for administration, such as using roles, workflow drafts, useful plugins, customizing text, avoiding "silent killers" like unused subscriptions, and performing quick Java optimizations.
This document provides instructions for installing the Meandre infrastructure, which is used to run services and analytics for the SEASR project. It can be installed on a laptop in 3 steps to run services locally, or deployed on a server to provide services to others. The installation includes the Meandre server, Workbench interface, Community Hub plugin for Wordpress, and Zotero plugin to analyze bibliographic collections. The backend database can be configured as Derby or MySQL. Additional bundles are available to simplify installation on different platforms.
This document provides an introduction to TurboGears, a Python web framework. It describes TurboGears as a "megaframework" and Pythonic answer to Ruby on Rails that enables rapid web development. The document summarizes key TurboGears components like SQLObject (ORM), CherryPy (application server), Kid (templating), and MochiKit (JavaScript library). It provides examples of using these components and describes how TurboGears integrates them to quickly generate a basic application structure and get started developing. Testing with TestGears/Nose and a sample "20-minute wiki" app are also briefly outlined.
The document discusses Yahoo!'s open strategy and technologies. It highlights Yahoo!'s use of open source technologies like FreeBSD, Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. It also discusses Yahoo!'s embrace of open standards, contributions to open source projects like YUI, and hiring of open source developers. Finally, it provides overviews of several Yahoo! open technologies including the Yahoo! Developer Network, OAuth, OpenID, YQL, and Yahoo! social APIs.
Apache and PHP: Why httpd.conf is your new BFF!Jeff Jones
Apache's configuration files can be used to configure how Apache operates, but they can also be used to configure PHP and how Apache httpd interacts with PHP. In this talk, Jeff explains the different ways Apache can be configured, explains many of the useful config options available for Apache modules, including our own mod_php, and showcases example of how they can be used with, and instead of, your PHP code.
This document discusses blogs, wikis, and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as learning tools. It begins with an agenda that covers what they are, how and why to use them, overcoming objections, tools and technologies, and bringing it all together. Each tool is then defined and the benefits for learners and organizations are outlined. Issues, risks and concerns are also discussed. The document concludes with addressing potential blockers to resistance and contact information.
Session by Ahmed Masoud (http://twitter.com/ahmedeleven) in WordCamp Egypt 2009, discussing different ways to have a WordPress blog and the installation of a typical WordPress System.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
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In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
3. Blog Security: WordPress
WordPress Security: Google 11,800,000
Very Popular Platform
Prime Target for Hackers
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Traffic Redirection
Links to Pharmacy / Adult sites
Graphics Replacement
Ad / Affiliate Redirection
Many others…
4. Blog Security: WordPress
You are on their hit list!
Game… Like you play Guitar Hero…
Always run the latest versions
Backdoor entry points
Passwords for users are downloaded
Open Source Software
Backups are essential
Frequent updates are essential
Many others…
5. Blog Security: WordPress
Monitor log files
Block probers if you can
Delete meta tag that displays WP version
“Powered by WordPress”
Private site or hosted?
WordPress.com
What is your Time worth?
What is your Blog worth?
6. Blog Security: WordPress
Turn off Open Registration
WP 2.5+ has better password encryption
Use a Strong admin password!
Limit Search on your server
Protect Directories from public browsing
Drop the version string in Meta Tags
7. Blog Security: WordPress
Limitwp-admin access by IP address
Protect using .htaccess
Protect your MySQL database
Use SSH/Shell access, not FTP
Use SFTP uploads if you can
Use VPN if you can
Never use Telnet!
8. Hosting Platform?
Use Linux / Apache if you can
Do NOT use Microsoft Windows
Automattic PollDaddy migration
PollDaddy .NET / SQL to PHP/MySQL
Automattic has 1,200 servers in use
Per Matt’s Blog - Stable and Scalable
10. WordPress: Internals
PHP – Must be kept updated
MySQL – Must be kept updated
OpenSource Software more secure
Security Through Transparency
Millions of people looking at it
Often fixed quickly
11. WordPress: Look For?
The Obvious
PlugIns that you did not install
header.php changes
Search Engine redirection (hard to detect)
Spammers may hide text
View HTML Source Code
Google records your “bad” content
13. If You Get Hacked?
Justa matter of time
Change ALL passwords
Backup databases
Update software quickly
Shut down site. Maybe…
Email to security@wordpress.com
14. WordPress: Plugins / Widgets
Only use what you can trust
Watch for suspicious activity
WP Security Scan
File Permissions
Database Security
XSS vulnerabilities
Many others…
16. Advertising On Your Blog
Google AdWords / AdSense
Others ???
Affiliate Programs
Be Careful…
WordPress Plugins
$5000 per Week? Slim Chance
Should you $$$ to Advertise?
18. Best Practices
Software Up To Date!
Backup Databases
Directory Protection Codes
File Protection Codes
Remove Install Files
Remove Version #
Layered Software
Do NOT use Microsoft Windows!