I have a set of data from an old legacy application that must be resurrected and web-enabled. The data was extracted from a relational database so it is structured in a conventional third-normal form, but the original application was pensioned off a long time ago, and probably a good thing too.

Reanimating a legacy …

A couple of weeks ago I had an unpleasant on-line interaction with some troll that ended with my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in a similar state to this one:

I have a number of web-based tools to monitor and maintain the various devices and applications on my network. It would be very convenient to integrate the tools with an administration console hosted on a secured web server that will let me in from the outside but keep the script kiddies out. …

"A blog? Aren't there too many blogs?"

Absolutely. As of today, there are 188.7 million blogs on Tumblr, more than 70 million on WordPress.com, and nobody knows how many are on Blogger because Google keeps that a secret.

"Then why are you blogging? Who is going to read yet another blog?"

Well, I …