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A friend asked me to help him with the following in Bash – delete all files but a whitelisted and use mix / max depth for directory traversal. It’s probably possible in Bash with some crazy find, grep, etc one-liner. But here’s how good it looks in Java 8 with streams, predicates, etc… With Java… read more »
I’ve had the following challenge yesterday. A friend of mine had an old Joomla 2.5 with a bunch of customization – additional components installed, custom theme, etc. It was hosted somewhere and had to be transferred away for some reasons. But before being transferred to a hosting which I am responsible for, it had to… read more »
I am sure that there are plenty of honeypots for logging remote intruders but none yet has been done on Spring Boot. So I decided to write a simple one while exploring Spring Boot: https://github.com/terry81/blocker It does the following – listens on a preconfigured port. Define it in the application properties (src/main/resources/application.properties) as blocker.honeypot_port. By… read more »
Mockito is a popular Java framework which comes to great help in Unit testing. In Unit testing it’s important to get to a state where you can concentrate on testing a specific functionality or behaviour. Mockito can help you with this by mocking or simulating specific methods which you may need. It’s important to be… read more »
Connecting to Elasticsearch and executing queries is generally considered easy. In fact, in many cases a simple curl query like this one is all you need: Though, if you want something more than just finding all documents that contain mySearch (as per the example above), you may get lost in the abundance of options and… read more »
Using Maven to maintain and build your Java projects has a lot of advantages including automatically resolving dependencies, running tests and packaging. In this article you will learn about a complete development cycle using Maven from creating the project to building it. Installing Maven You can install Maven on most Linux distributions using the default… read more »
Chef (the systems integration framework) provides a standalone tool called chef-solo. With chef-solo you can run locally chef recipes without the need for a centralised server (Chef master). This is great for getting started with chef, testing recipes or when you just don’t want a centralised Chef master. In this article we’ll go through a… read more »
AppArmor is the default Mandatory Access Control module on Ubuntu, SuSE and other Linux distributions. Thanks to it, you can limit the filesystem access of a process. There are already some good howtos for getting a basic setup of Apparmor for Php-fpm. Though, in cases such as that of running multiple sites securely with Php-fpm, you… read more »
A great security feature of Php FastCGI Process Manager (Php-fpm) is its ability to run Php scripts with different users. This in addition to its other merits such as performance and many fine grained options for tuning makes it the best choice for running Php sites. Before anything else, I must admit that Nginx with… read more »
The best way to terminate a Java thread is with a switch such as a boolean property, .e.g abort. As soon as a condition is met, usually a timeout, you can change the value of abort to true and thus exit thread. Example: import java.util.concurrent.*; public class CheckResults { private static int counter = 0;… read more »