http://davidhemphill.com/blog/ en davidlee.hemphill@gmail.com Copyright 2011 2011-09-07T05:16:34+00:00 http://davidhemphill.com/blog/protect-your-git-directory http://davidhemphill.com/blog/protect-your-git-directory#When:05:16:34Z 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! 2011-09-07T05:16:34+00:00 http://davidhemphill.com/blog/take-a-look-at-the-new-digs http://davidhemphill.com/blog/take-a-look-at-the-new-digs#When:06:30:49Z 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. 2011-09-01T06:30:49+00:00