We’re thrilled to announce a new product in the Grokability family! Introducing GoodForms, a better way to verify email addresses. GoodForms isn’t just syntax validation, it’s powerful armor against polluted mail server IP spaces that comes from fake/spammy or typo’d email address signups. In it’s most simple form, it’s a drop-in line of javascript, but if you...
The long-awaited Snipe-IT v7 launch looms nearer, so we wanted to loop you in on where we’re at. We had planned on launching v7 in early November, to coincide with Snipe-IT’s ten-year anniversary (!!) but between holidays schedules and the framework upgrade (with dependencies), it’s been taking a little longer than we had hoped. Dependency management means testing each library...
Whether you’re just starting out in coding or are a seasoned dev who wants to learn a new language, there’s always room to hone your skills. Even if your primary focus isn’t developing software, knowing a bit of code can up your game, make your tech job easier, and sometimes open new doors in your career. Learning to code isn’t always fun and games, but there are loads of...
It took a while for snipe to convince me to come on as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) here at Grokability. One of the biggest hurdles was the fact that she and I are married. I was convinced that, not only would that be a challenge, but that might spell the end of my career – I didn’t want to be the guy who could “only get hired by his own wife.”It took her a few years to be able to...
(image via sentry.io) When our intrepid leader, @snipe, chose to open-source Snipe-IT, she was wondering which license to choose. First off, why did she want to open-source it; why not just keep it proprietary? Well, @snipe put it best when she said: We chose open source because we owe our entire careers to open-source. It only feels fair that we give back to this community that has given us so...
The internet is alight this week with news of a widespread vulnerability in the Linux “policy kit” framework, specifically a root compromise via the pkexec program, designated CVE-2021-4034. Most of our systems do not fall under this advisory, and the ones that do have been fully patched. Of note, our Snipe-IT hosting systems were completely unaffected by this advisory.As always, we...