I started today with grand plans of setting up a nice, secure email server complete with spam filtering, virus scanning, and solid validation to keep me off the spammer lists. I researched various sources of information, created a plan and began working toward email nirvana. The whole purpose of this endeavor was to receive a single email, for my SSL certificate renewal,...
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I found this awesome service [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html] provided by Qualsys SSL Labs. I had done a fair amount of research into strong SSL configuration after Heartbleed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed], POODLE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE], etc. so I was very interested to see how my system would perform. My server did very well...
I decided to participate in the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge [http://neilb.org/2014/11/29/pr-challenge-2015.html]. I have used perl for 15 years and have not contributed much back to the wonderful Perl community in that time. I see this as the perfect opportunity to rub the shoulders of the giants I have been standing on all these years....
I attended Java One 2014 in San Francisco from September 28 - October 2. This conference is huge and is just a portion of the massive Oracle OpenWorld. I did not attend any sessions on the first day due to some travel issues, but I still made the most of the four remaining days. These are the sessions I attended, a summary...