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First responsive site

August 8, 2012 — Leave a comment

Today I pushed my first responsive site live.  Using Twitter’s Bootstrap as my base, my goal was to create a simple mobile site that would the primary presence for our QR code.  Responsive design certainly requires a lot of thought, and probably too much for a newb like me, but I am pleased with the outcome.  I also rolled our own custom store locator that uses HTML geolocation which has turned out to be a great feature.

As we get closer to redesigning the entire site for the brand, the responsive design will most likely be incorporated.

Natural Vines Mobile Site

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National Licorice Day design

January 31, 2012 — Leave a comment

Just a little thing I came up with to announce National Licorice Day on our new site.  Still trying to get my feet wet with this whole design thing.

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Another iPhone wallpaper

January 16, 2012 — Leave a comment

I was playing with a logo for a business idea I’m throwing around and thought it would look good as a wallpaper:

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$1200 dollars for a crib?

November 12, 2010 — 2 Comments

When you wait 5 years between kids, it’s inevitable that you will get rid of most, if not all your baby stuff.  Thus was the case with Danielle and I.  We had no crib, no clothes, no dressers, toys, swings, etc.  We were essentially starting ALL OVER AGAIN, which in this day and age is expensive.  During one of the baby shopping trips to one my my wife’s favorite stores in the Pearl District, we both found a crib we loved, but it was $1200.00.  Me (being a guy and looking for excuses to build something) looked at this crib, its four sides, simple legs, and some slats, and thought to myself “this probably won’t cost me more than $200 dollars to build”.  Luck for me, Danielle was all about the idea and gave the go-ahead to see what I could come up with.

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Changing snort signatures with Oinkmaster

May 10, 2010 — Leave a comment

Unless I’m just not seeing it, there isn’t a way to differentiate alerts from drops with BASE for snort.  They all appear the same, and unless you know the the sid or the .rules file, all the information looks the same.  To help alleviate this, and give users the abillity to see rules that are dropping packets at a glance, I decided to task Oinkmaster.pl with this job.  Adding the phrase “DROPPED” to the end of the “msg:” section of the signature will make it appear that way in BASE and Aanval can now send an email whenever one of these rules are kicked off.
To do so simply add the following to your oinkmaster.conf file:

modifysid sid or rule “(.*msg:\s*”.+?)”(\s*;.+;)” | “${1}, DROPPED”${2}”

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Snort and “–enable-reload”

February 22, 2010 — Leave a comment

One of my biggest peeves about Snort and running it inline is having to restart the Snort process to load new rules.  This had me worried with putting snort into production as it would make it awfully hard to tweak it while live.

Today I was browsing the Snort manual and found two short paragraph’s relating to the “–enable-reload” option.  Wha?  Why didn’t I find this earlier?  After a quick recompile with the “–enable-reload” command.  What a life saver this will be when we go live!

After using that option, you can simply issue a “kill -SIGHUP pid” to have it reload without restarting!

Check out the pg 107 of the Snort manual though, as some changes require a restart, so your not going to get off completely scott free.

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Snort 2.8.5.2 Inline + BASE on Ubuntu

February 12, 2010 — 8 Comments

Boy, when I started down the process of trying to get an IPS system setup, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  I’m not much of a security guy or a linux guy, but I thought I’d give it a go.  I followed many different guides that all worked great for me, and thank you to those who put the following guides together: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=919472,  http://www.openmaniak.com/inline.php,  http://forum.learnit.vn/showthread.php?p=7007

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You can submit hatch info..

January 18, 2010 — 12 Comments

If you have information you’d like to share and include in The Hatch, please feel free to use the link at the top of the page titled “Submit Hatch Information”.  You will be presented with a form asking for the state, river name, bug, and month’s you’ll find the bug hatching. These updates will be included in periodic updates to the app.

Thanks everyone.

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Lesson’s Learned In iPhone App Development

January 5, 2010 — 14 Comments

After the purchase of a new MacBook Pro about a year ago, I thought you know what?  I’m going to try and develop an app.  I hadn’t seen anything related to fly fishing and thought maybe I could create an app that provides a hatch chart for rivers across the US!

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New The Hatch 2 feature….Sneak Peak

November 24, 2009 — 6 Comments

Working on a new feature as I can find the time.  I think you’ll all enjoy it.

Screenshot 2009.11.24 15.08.07

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