David Hemphill

It seems a lot of people are using Git to get their website’s into version control. That is a good thing. The truth is, however, a lot of designers don’t have too much experience with the nuances of having our code in a repository, and so we don’t always know about little security tips and tricks the pros use.

Well, here’s an important little trick I picked up from Matt Masuga’s presentation at EECI2010. If your deployed site is a working copy of your master repository, adding this simple rule to your .htaccess file will hide your .git directory from public viewing, adding a bit of extra security. This tip will actually work for any site that’s deployed on Git.

The rule is : RedirectMatch 403 /.git.*$

This is a pretty important rule to have because it protects you from people seeing the inner workings of your server. Hope this helps someone!

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m proud to announce my new site. It’s not perfect by any means, but I’m really happy with the way it’s turning out.

A Fresh Start

I started fresh this time around, rather than using what I had already built as a starting point. I wanted this design to have more “legs” and last a bit longer than previous iterations, and I think I’m on the right track with this direction.

Another Blog?

Some of you may notice that I now have two blogs going. I’ve decided that I’m going to make my Tumblr blog a bit more personal and the blog on this site more professional/web related. So if you’d like know more about my personality, head over to http://blog.davidhemphill.com, but if not, that’s fine with me too.

Other

I haven’t even given this site a check in Internet Explorer (or any non-Webkit browser really) to see how it renders, but I’m going to make every attempt to make it look great there too. Don’t hold your breath though.