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To help with my Cybersecurity job search, I thought it would be interesting to see how much pentesting I can learn in a one-week period. I'll describe what I've done, starting from the basics. I'll...
This page describes setting up a CFML server using Lucee (compatible with Adobe ColdFusion CFML pages) on Amazon's AWS EC2 cloud computing service. I was looking for a way to host example/demo versions of some of...
What it Was Like to Use the Internet in 1991
This page describes what it was like to use the Internet in 1991. This was before almost anyone in ordinary life had even heard of the Internet. Back then, it was almost a completely blank...
This page shows the code for a "Load More" button, using jQuery and AJAX. It can be used to add any content to a <DIV> inside web page while the rest of the page is...
Welcome to Codewiz.au
New Website Codewiz.au is a new website which will be featuring information, tips, advice, ideas, and a bunch of other topics mostly related to IT and Cyber Security. Why Another I.T. / Cybersecurity Website? Considering that...
This page demonstrates a simple quiz written in JavaScript and HTML forms, made for a TAFE course in web and database development/design in 2001. This kind of quiz makes a good project to practice on when...
My 10 year-old son made this game in the language Scratch in a few hours (with some help). Neither of us had coded in Scratch before, and I hadn't really seen it before at all. At...
There are more ways now to learn coding than ever before. There's so many different ways to start learning now, it's almost like the hardest thing about the whole process is just knowing where to...
This page describes how to install bee-box, a virtual Linux installation containing bWAPP, which is a deliberately buggy web application to practice pentesting and other cyber security skills on. From the bWAPP website: ...
This page gives a quick introduction to the Iptables firewall software for Linux. More details will follow later... 1. How Iptables Works. The term “iptables” may refer to either the software firewall which is integrated...
Basics of SQL Injection Attacks
SQL injection attacks are carried out by inserting SQL code into a field where user input is accepted. If the user input is not correctly handled, this can result in the code executing by the...
This is the first type of "secret spy code" I learned as a child, from a book called "The Spy's Guidebook". Years later, I learned that it's called a Caesar Cipher — named after Julius...
Portfolio Showing Some of My First Websites
This page shows some examples of websites I made when I started working as a freelance full-stack web and database developer/designer in 2001. I'll add a lot more to this page soon, and also demo some...