Using nullmailer as a simple MTA

nullmailer is a very simple MTA I like to use on Linux servers when I don’t want to have a lot of hassle with mail server configuration. It will automatically send all local mail to one of my email addresses by simply installing it and configuring two files....

Automatic and Secure rsync over SSH

Let’s you want to set up an automatic rsync over ssh to a remote server, but you want to do it in a secure way. Using rsync over ssh is a convenient way to have all of the power of rsync for synchronizing files, comparing differences, doing backups, without...
A Simple Popover Tooltip

A Simple Popover Tooltip

I like the popover tooltip that Twitter designed and I want to use it in my web applications without having to include the full bootstrap project.  I included only the basics needed to give me the popover functionality.  Here is what it looks like once implemented: To...

How to Prevent Scope Creep

When our company develops software, one of the more difficult problems we face is taking a customer vision of a project and focusing it.  Software developers are generally very good at implementing functional requirements.  A skill that they aren’t as naturally...

New Guru Technologies Website

We now have a new custom-designed website that we built in-house.  We hope to make our blog a great resource for technology best practices and useful articles on software development and IT Support.