Lately I've begun work on Infosys again - a mixture of new features, bug-fixes and an insane amount of refactoring. Because Infosys is a pet-project of mine, partly done to experiment and learn, I have no problem redoing all the core parts now and then - just for kicks. However, the ...
read moreOpenVPN - my new friend
I recently figured it would be a good idea to set up a VPN server, to be able to route internet traffic securely to a point of departure I trust as safe. I happen to control a server located in Germany, and so it was fairly easy to find a ...
read moreLibraries
For a new project I am using Doctrine2, Twitter Bootstrap, Jquery & JqueryUI, and Backbone.js & Underscore. At first I figured I'd try out Symfony2 and Yii, to see if maybe they could kickstart the project and get me most of the crud functionality - but while both of them probably ...
read moreDebugging javascript
Over the last week, I've had the joy of debugging some nasty javascript bugs. Generally, I really like javascript, especially since discovering Douglas Crockfords take on it (available in boiled-down form at Amazon). It turned from the typical "Javascript is a ridiculous toy language that doesn't work" to ...
read moreSwitching to #!
I recently got fed up with Ubuntu after switching from 10.10 to 11.10, as Unity rubbed me in a very bad way. Also, my netbook got slower, some personal modifications to my install got lost, and I couldn't figure out how to change settings to my liking ...
read morePHP RESTful frameworks
Mail madness
Another post not on the topic I set out a little while ago, this time about email - specifically webmail. A family member asked me to backup their webmail account and it so happens to be a Hotmail account. Naively I figure that by now, Microsoft must have created a fairly ...
read moreLate night coding
While avoiding the new learning series I dreamt up I've been doing some reading and playing with postfix and ldap. The first topic came about because of some stuff at work (had to set up postfix with authentication, turned out to be much more complex than one would expect ...
read moreInterlude: nginx + php
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