Book Review: Ready Player One
Book Series: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Once having heard this book being described as Willie Wonka meets World of Warcraft, the description seemed very attractive. And in no way does the description not ring true. Ernest Cline had a lot of fun writing this novel as he did …
Book Series: Zero Day + Trojan Horse
Book Series: Jeff Aiken series
Author: Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich has provided an immeasurable difference in the computing world. As a co-founder of Windows Internals and now Microsoft Azure CTO, its hard to imagine that Mark has more to give. However with these two books, he once again has given …
Book Review: Influx
Book Series: Influx
Author: Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez has always had my interest with the technological thrillers that hes written. When I first was introduced to Daemon, it was an adventure that caused me to read the book in a very short period of time.
In all his books, theres …
Getting Started with Metasploit in Kali Linux
OS: Kali Linux
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Linux CLI, Basic Networking Concepts, PostgresSQL
Metasploit is the closet thing to push button security and penetration testing one can find. It is by far the most popular security testing framework. Metasploit has thousands of modules and is growing daily with a very …
C4android Programming on your Android devices in C/C++
I love mobile computing, and I love coding. It is only natural that I would want to do some coding on the go. C4android lets you do just that if you enjoy coding in C/C++ and want to do it easily on your Android device. C4android is a nice …
Make a Bootable Flash Drive from an ISO file in Linux
Make a Bootable Flash Drive from an ISO file in Linux
OS: nix based systems
Skill Level: Beginner
Prerequisites:* Terminal, The Power of Root
There are a few ways of creating a bootable USB drive. This is my preference. Using dd is quick, easy and available on all *nix systems …
Google Chrome Development Tools for Web Apps
Google Chrome Development Tools for Web Apps
I have been doing some web app coding recently and thought I would share some of the helpful development tools that are available in Google Chrome. Especially when coding for multiple devices. I will skip over the basic things that have been in …
Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio error Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
I recently ran into an error one day trying to open my SQL Management Studio application. I have been using this application for years now but one day it just would not launch and just displayed an error message Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
I …
More Docker: Dockerfile to build a MongoDB Image
Last post (Getting Started With Docker) I ended off with saying I would come back and show how to set up a mongodb docker image. If you go to https://registry.hub.docker.com/ on the first page you can find the official mongodb docker image. This is not that …