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Effective Software Development with Agile SCRUM

This article outlines my experience with using Agile Scrum to develop enterprise level software. The steps listed below are compiled from across the internet. See the end of this article for sources. Development Team Metrics Agile metrics are an essential component of the development process and are critical to communicating development estimates as well as […]

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MySQL Best Practices

Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. As programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Table Names By convention, the “snake case” in lowercase (no PascalCase – we’re not using Microsoft SQL Server here!), plural name of the class will

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Connecting to Ubuntu Servers With RSA Keys

I manage a bunch of internal servers and for those that aren’t part of the wider web I like to use key pairs to speed up my sign ins and maintenance. Key-Based SSH Logins Key-based authentication is the most secure mode of authentication usable with OpenSSH. Key-based authentication has several advantages over password authentication, for example

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Simple Changes to Secure Apache

Keep Updated You should update your linux settings no less than once a month. This will ensure that you are not running vulnerable technology. Remove Header Details / Disable Tokens When Apache web server generates any web pages or error pages, some important information about the version and other details implemented on the system are

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