rbulling's blog

More and more of our customer projects are moving to git as their version control system. Most developers we have on staff are already familiar with at least one version control system (often Subversion. As a modern, distributed version control system, git has much to recommend it. There is a bit of a learning curve involved, however. Although graphical clients exist (for eclipse, egit, or for Windows, tortoisegit, you will probably have to deal with git on the command line to use it effectively.

For the CARFAX Dealer Application that we delivered in January 2011, we delivered a VIN lookup and report tool that had bar code scanning capabilities if you used it on a compatible device (an iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS).

Recently while I was working on strengthening the security of an online password reset tool, I ran into an a pair of file permission issues related to SELinux. I've witnessed many system administrators and engineers throw up their hands when they encounter a problem like this, and turn off SELinux policy enforcement, weakening the security posture of the system. Instead of doing that, I added a new SELinux policy to allow just the operations my new application needed.