Category Archives: Surviving the Internet

Architecture the Lost Years (Robert Cecil Martin; 4 Nov 2011)

Posted on 9 Jan 2012 by

Did worldwide Hypertext turned software developers out in the field upside-down? In Architecture the Lost Years (1h 06m) Robert C. Martin talks about the web and how it influenced development design decisions in the last decade(s). Is the system the … Continue reading →

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Will Automattic join Dec 29 move away from GoDaddy day?

Posted on 23 Dec 2011 by

With all the reports about SOPA and GoDaddy (Mashable, PC World, ars technica, Read Write Web, VentureBeat, …) I was wondering if Automattic, one of GoDaddy’s customers, has been taking note of selfprodigy’s reddit posting: I’m suggesting Dec 29th as … Continue reading →

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How-To Block Alexa Robot

Posted on 18 Mar 2011 by

It’s easy and can save you some bandwidth per month, just add the following to your robots.txt file: Additionally it saves you to get too much information concentrated on alexa.com. You can contact them to delete existing content as well. … Continue reading →

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Best Practice robots.txt

Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by

I did some research month ago and wrote a longer article about robots.txt. But for a quick lookup it’s too much to read, so today it’s time a for a simple best-practices check-list: Use ASCII encoding for robots.txt (see as … Continue reading →

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Websocket Protocol Vulnerability

Posted on 17 Dec 2010 by

Linked: Disabling the WebSocket protocol (by Anne van Kesteren; 08 Dec 2010). This HTML 5 looks to be a scary mess security wise. I hope the browser vendors do their jobs.

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WordPress Licensing Issues – Plugins are GPL, Right?

Posted on 15 Dec 2010 by

If you thought that the wordpress package you can download from wordpress.org is re-distributable under GPL, then you’re thinking wrong. Why do I say so? Thanks to a ticket opened by novasource, it came to my attention, that the Hello … Continue reading →

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Slow Crawling Fixes

Posted on 2 Dec 2010 by

WordPress 3.0.2 went out some days ago. Announced as security release (full 3.0.2 Changelog) for the stable wordpress version. While taking a look into the changelog, I got a little flashback. The most prominent security issue was in fact an … Continue reading →

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Display Errors on Production Sites – Today: Adult Swim

Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by

Geeeez! The purple pixel robot is talking to me: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in _adultswim_get_term_name() (line 395 of / docrootas20/ sites/ all/ modules/ publicreative/ adultswim/ adultswim.module). (Source) How sweet, this will be my new friend. I’ve just fallen … Continue reading →

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Disable Stylesheets in Internet Explorer

Posted on 23 Aug 2010 by

Microsofts Browser, the Internet Explorer, is somehow hated by Webdesigners and Developers throughout the world. But still there is discussion over here and there whether or not to support the Browser any longer, for example version 6. I won’t go … Continue reading →

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Team playing the hashcat card in Korelogic’s “Crack Me If You Can” DEFCON 2010 competition

Posted on 1 Aug 2010 by

A relativly small team has had great success at DEFCON 2010 in this years “Crack Me If you can” competition sponsored by Korelogic Inc, a US-based information security company.

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Resource Expert Droid – Analyze HTTP Requests

Posted on 3 Jul 2010 by

The Resource Expert Droid – or Redbot in short, is an online tool to analyze HTTP requests. It provides decent information about response headers and the request headers can be configured as well (javascript required).

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Twitpic does not like it’s users to use a computer

Posted on 30 Jun 2010 by

Via TechCrunch: Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool Read on: EFF Seeks to Protect Innovation for Social Network Users

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wordpress HTTP and header related tickets

Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by

I’ve done some massive HTTP stuff lately which included a full re-read of some (all?) HTTP releated RFCs – some of them I first studied years ago. It’s not that simple as it was back those years, but it’s good … Continue reading →

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Test: Firefox’s new Plugin Container Process

Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by

With the latest / since Firefox 3.6.4 plugins are run in their own process. That’s great news because it will help to gain more stability. And it opens a lot of new possibilities. For example you can create your own … Continue reading →

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HTTP Status Codes in Use

Posted on 18 Jun 2010 by

This is a collection of HTTP Status Codes references by the IETF that are currently in use

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HTTP/HTML: Missing HTTP-Body/HTML on Redirect

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by

This bothers me often: unfriendly redirects.

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WordPress Outage Feedback

Posted on 14 Jun 2010 by

WP.COM was down the second time this year at the end of last week. Well that’s certainly not a news any longer and good so, the dust of buzz has lowered a bit. What’s interesting about the outage for me … Continue reading →

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Control your site’s usage in frames

Posted on 18 May 2010 by

A nice way to improve your website against click-jacking and framing is now available for Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4 or Chrome 2. And for Firefox users who are using the No-Script plugin. You as web-developer only need to add … Continue reading →

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Stripslashed to death? – End the Madness!

Posted on 15 May 2010 by

Another highly biased post with much #WTF potential as it’s typed on twitter: In WordPress there is some pretty stinky code. I always make a joke about the plain wrong slogan “Code is poetry” [sic!] where if that would be, … Continue reading →

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