by Geoff

GitHub is Pretty Swell!

I’m slowing starting to move all my current code over to GitHub. GitHub is an online collaboration environment for use with Git, a fast, distributed version control system. It’s used by some pretty heavy hitters in the development world. On Windows, I use PortableGit because it’s easy and self-contained; on Ubuntu, Git can be found in apt/Synaptic.

You’ll see a new link in my menu at the top pointing to my public GitHub repositories. From here you can browse the code or download entire projects. For the meantime I’ll keep posting zip files to the EnSCripts page as they’re often easier for non-developers to deal with. Consider learning Git and moving your own projects to GitHub if you’re still self-hosting. Just, uh, don’t commit passwords. Enjoy!

by Geoff

Getting Started

Well I put off getting started as long as possible. Maybe I waited too long?

The truth is I’ve been outside the veil now for about a year and I’m consistently becoming re-involved in Real ForensicsTM. I occasionally made time in the past to speak about my passion with others, but as I spend more and more time on it again I’d like to share some things as I plod along. The first thing that comes to mind is EnScript, as I’ve published a few over the years. A decent number of questions pop up and these are answered by a few usual suspects: Lance Mueller does an awesome job posting new relevant stuff ; Jon Stewart has been posting on the Three Laws of EnScript; and Paul Bobby has recently been churning out illustrative scripting guides. You can also expect posts on general forensics, e-discovery, weirdo technical issues with my favorite email client Lotus Notes, and all kinds of other tech issue beasties that affect us every day. I hope that the topics I post on are interesting to general practitioners and developers alike, and if you’re keen on a particular subject please let me know!