My MacTech July 2013 articles

Article 1: Using telnet to troubleshoot TCP/IP services

Article 2: An Introduction to Drupal

Article 3: Using VirtueMart for Web Payments

Article 4: The Mac OS X 10.8 Log Files

My two articles @ MacTech May 2013

Article 1 title: An introduction to sar
Monitoring your Mac’s performance using sar.

Article 2 title: Using email to execute a command

How to make email work for you.

My articles for the MacTech April 2013 issue

Article 1: Programming iCloud Applications
An introduction to the iCloud API.

Article 2: Drawing in iOS

My February 2013 MacTech article

Title: An Introduction to Cacti

My MacTech January 2013 articles

1st article
Title: An introduction to MRTG
Graphing network traffic with MRTG

2nd article (coauthor: Dimitris Tsoukalos)
Title: Programming a Joomla! Extension
How to program a Joomla module

My article for the MacTech Fall 2012 issue

Title: An introduction to Squid
Subtitle: The Squid proxy server

TUAW Origin Stories: Neil Ticktin, MacTech

My articles for the August 2012 MacTech issue

1st article
Title: An introduction to gdb
Subtitle: How to use the GNU debugger

2nd article
Title: The tcpdump network utility
Subtitle: How to capture network data using tcpdump

and yes, there is a 3rd article! (co-author: Christos Karidis)
Title: Installating an SSD drive on an iMac
Subtitle: Replacing the HD of a late 2009 27-inch iMac with a SSD

You can imagine how happy I am :)

Two of my articles published in the MacTech July 2012 issue!

First article
Title: An introduction to Moodle
Subtitle: Installing and using Moodle on a Mac running Lion

Second article
Title: Running a cache DNS server on Lion
Subtitle: How to use BIND to run a cache DNS server

My article for the MacTech June 2012 issue

Title: Selecting photos in iOS
Subtitle: How to select a photo from the Photo Library in an iOS Application

My MacTech April 2012 articles!

1st article
Title: An introduction to WordPress


2nd article
Title: The find UNIX command

MacTech iPad app

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MacTech March 2012 article

Title: WireShark Display Filters

Subtitle: What they are and how to use them

MacTech December 2011 article

Title: An Introduction to GNU Octave
Subtitle: Is Octave a viable MATLAB alternative?

MacTech November 2011 articles!

Title: Typesetting a book on a Mac using LaTeX
Subtitle: How I used LaTeX to typeset a book


Title: Find Your Current iPhone Location
Subtitle: Four ways to find your location with your iPhone

MacTech September 2011 article

Title: WireShark and DHCP
Subtitle: How WireShark solved a DHCP conflict


co-authored with Dimitris Tsoukalos

Working on...

I was pretty busy the last few days and I will also be busy for the next few weeks doing the following:

• Installing VirtueMart on a Joomla! site
• Writing articles for MacTech
• Waiting for iOS 5 :)
• Creating two more Joomla! sites
• Waiting for iPhone 5?
• Installing WordPress on Lion

More tk

Just build something

Found it in MacTech magazine, May 2011.
by Justin Williams

My July 2011 MacTech article

Title: Using AppleScript and Perl for Automation
Subtitle: Saving Facebook pages as WebArchives in an automated way

June 2011 MacTech article

Title: Examining 3 Important Nmap Scans with WireShark
Subtitle: Using WireShark to explain Nmap traffic


Co-author: Dimitris Tsoukalos.