Ryadel

C# WebClient Class extension with a custom Request Timeout Introducing RyadelWebClient, a free and open-source System.Net.WebClient extension class featuring a customizable constructor and [Timeout] property

July 4, 2020July 4, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I had to fix an odd timeout issue that suddenly occurred to one of my ASP.NET web applications: when I looked at the logs, I easily figured out that …

Android / Coding / Cyber Security / Design / iOS / Mobile Devices / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Web

Digital Contact Tracing Apps: all known protocols From PEPPT-PT to DP-3T, from the Apple & Google decentralized APIs to the central log processing of BlueTrace & OpenTrace: all contract tracing projects

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

When it comes to Digital Contact Tracing app, it's very important to determine what tracing protocol has been implemented by the app itself. As you might already know if you've …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Force a Remote Group Policy Refresh with GPUpdate, Invoke-GPUpdate or GPMC How to force the update / refresh of the local Group Policy settings of an Active Directory Windows Client using either the GPMC, the GPUpdate command-line tool or Powershell

May 21, 2020January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we published an article explaining how to disable file copy through RDP using Group Policy for all the Windows clients within the same Active Directory forest. …

TS2564 (TS) Property has no initializer TypeScript error in Visual Studio 2017 - How to fix

Coding / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / Web

How to become a Web Developer: a detailed plan for learning JavaScript A list of the main study topics that await a novice JavaScript developer in his/her learning path to become a great web developer

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Everyone who wants to become an IT developer usually begins with making sites, as the easiest part of it. To work, you need only a text editor for writing the …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - How to list all Services using CMD and Powershell A set of useful Windows command-line and Powershell tools to show the System Services, searching and filtering them and so on

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

As you most likely already know, in Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background, just like daemons in a Unix-like environment. They …

Smart Working e IT Security: come difendersi dai rischi e dagli attacchi informatici

Cyber Security / Privacy & Compliance / Spam and Scam Alert / Web

Remote Working and IT Security: how to mitigate risks and defend your employees from cyber attacks Some useful recommendations (and a free course offered by Kaspersky) to mitigate the risks of Shadow IT malpractices and cyber attacks for employees who work remotely

May 17, 2020May 18, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

On May 2020, Kaspersky published an interesting report entitled How COVID-19 changed the way people work, which illustrates a series of statistics that are anything but reassuring on the level …

Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / Web

Rocket Chat - Change ROOT_URL and Site URL How to change the Rocket Chat's Site URL after changing the ROOT_URL in the rocketchat.service file

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

Today I was playing with Rocket.Chat, a neat open source web chat platform / framework with a lot of useful features. Unfortunately, the project still has a lot of issues …

Operating Systems / Windows

Windows - Disable file copy through RDP with Group Policy How to configure the Local or AD Group Policy Objects to disable Clipboard redirection, Drive mapping/redirection, LPT port redirection and/or COM port redirection through Remote Desktop Protocol

May 11, 2020May 21, 2020 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In this post we'll see how we can use the Windows Server Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to globally disable some useful - yet potentially harmful - features that natively come …

Coding / PHP / Tools & Utilities / Web

WordPress - change default sender name and e-mail address How to change the WordPress default sender name and e-mail address for the lost password e-mail and other system notifications

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you own a WordPress-based website you most likely know what happens whenever one of your users (including you) loses his password: he clicks to the "forgot password?" link below …

Operating Systems / Tools & Utilities / Windows

How to change password through Remote Desktop (RDP) A couple of useful suggestions to change your Windows password when accessing your PC using Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you're reading this, it most likely means that you're looking for a way to change your Windows password remotely, i.e. from a Remote Desktop connection (RDP protocol): this is …