Technology & Life Related Musings

Why?

One of the things we needed to establish for Cistec App Development was some sort of remote version control. Up until now we’d been using the world renowned Dropbox for working on our projects but it had several issues (updated in realtime, so if you attempted to compile after a colleague made a typo..).

After some googling to decide between the two version control systems Xcode will integrate with (SVN and Git) we went with Git thanks to some strong opinions on StackOverflow.

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Alright, so before you push on through this post lets cover some basic scenarios where-by this might be useful:

1. You’re on an insecure network and want to prevent your traffic being snooped on.
   All your traffic will be sent over SSH so it’ll all be encrypted to the point that it leaves your tunnel end.
2. You want to get local access to a work or home network that’s behind a firewall.
   By tunnelling all your traffic through a host internal to that network requests will appear to come from it’s local address within that network, allowing you to access things you usually wouldn’t be able to remotely as if you were internal to the network.

Amusingly this was actually the best explanatory image on the subject of SSH tunnelling I could find, courtesy of an Engadget post here.

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Two words, function and style.

Since I’ve had this Macbook Pro I’ve been increasingly pining for it when using PCs at work or my other machines at home.

Apple aren’t perfect, but they’re definitely doing something right.

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I like to have some virtual machines to hand for various things and not having used a Mac before I was unsure as to the best virtualization solution.

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