Applied Trust has been producing The Barking Seal for our clients, supporters, and friends since 2003.
One of the greatest features of being consulting IT infrastructure engineers is that we have the opportunity to see, touch, and experience a wide variety of technologies and their successful (and sometimes, not so successful) application. We have the opportunity to solve problems that have never been solved before. And, every once in awhile, we make mistakes that provide good lessons. It's our hope that sharing some of these experiences will better our community as a whole. We hope you enjoy it!!
May 03, 2012
You probably know by now that as a Drupal developer, Drush can make your life much easier by allowing you to perform simple (and not so simple) tasks from the command line. In fact many of us use Drush quite extensively in our day-to-day tasks, from downloading, enabling, or disabling modules to creating, updating, or...
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May 01, 2012
Boulder's OWASP chapter recently started up again, and the first meeting was an introduction to the Webscarab proxy for some of the newer folks. As interesting and interactive as the Denver OWASP chapter meetings have been, it can sometimes be tough to get all the way down to Denver after work, so I was really excited...
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Apr 18, 2012
There are a couple of ways that you can use Views to build a nice tabbed interface on your site. The first is by using quicktabs, which is probably what most people would want because it creates a nice block that you can position on any of your pages. The second, which we will go into detail about here, is through a...
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Apr 10, 2012
When I'm checking out a new network, one of my first security steps is to do a 'show version' on the hardware to see what version of code is running. One of the most overlooked areas of an IT security defense plan is the network operating system running on hardware. It's easy to assume that once the switch,...
continue reading Mar 30, 2012
Drush 5 was just released, and we are very excited. For an overview of what has changed and what new features are available, you should take a look at the video from Drupalcon Denver.
Some of its coolest features include the following:
Shell Aliases - Allow you to create a bash alias inside of Drush. The benefit of...
continue reading Mar 26, 2012
Last time we talked about how to set up an alias file in .drush/aliases.drushrc.php. Today we are going to talk about grouping aliases to make it easier to maintain your alias files and certain groups of sites.
Let’s say you are working on a project that has a production site, a staging site, and a development...
continue reading Mar 06, 2012
Drush uses aliases to allow you to use drush commands without the need to be located in the base install directory of your Drupal instance, or having to use the --root and --uri flags to tell drush where your Drupal instance is. Setting up an alias is pretty easy, and very powerful. Here we will take a look at a few...
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Feb 29, 2012
This week marked a pretty cool milestone for me: 10 years at AppliedTrust. I’ve never worked anywhere that long before, and I don’t know many other people who have either, so I thought it’d be fun to reflect back on my time here and share some highlights.
When I became the fourth employee at AppliedTrust in February...
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Feb 23, 2012
As an AppliedTrust Seal, I’m always looking for great products — both commercial and opensource. Every now and then, an expensive vendor surprises me and does something truly wonderful, like create something that is not only useful but also free. That’s exactly what Quest Software did with its ActiveRoles Management...
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Feb 17, 2012
I'm excited to report that a majority of our seal harem was able to trade their keyboards for their snowboards and skis yesterday afternoon to participate in the first-ever AppliedTrust Ski and Snowboard Day at Eldora, where we enjoyed a great team-building experience!
The weather cooperated with sunny skies, calmish...
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